Harper v. Jeffries’s Empirical Analysis
808 F.2d 281 · 1986
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Wilson v. Rackmill (1989), Williams v. Hepting (1988)
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Alabama v. Pugh · Central Intelligence Agency v. Holy Spirit Ass'n for the Unification of World Christianity · Ybarra v. Reno Thunderbird Mobile Home Village
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a state prisoner is seeking damages, he is attacking something other than the fact or length of confinement, and he is seeking something other than immediate or more speedy release_ Accordingly, ... a damages action by a state prisoner could be brought under the Civil Rights Act in federal court without any requirement of prior exhaustion of state remedies.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it would be proper for the district court to stay [the] Sec. 1983 action until [plaintiff] has had an opportunity to exhaust all state remedies on his habeas corpus claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the district court should not have dismissed the damage claims simply because they were related to the habeas petition. Id. at 284. 10 Harper is controlling on this appeal. The instant complaint may be read as either a civil rights complaint or a petition for writ of habeas corpus. Melvin originally asked that the parole board be required to hold a hearing and sought damages for being deprived of parole and being returned to prison without a hearing. As in Wright and Georgevich, the results of a hearing might increase the chances of parole. However, an order requiring a hearing would”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.