Messick v. Leavins’s Empirical Analysis
811 F.2d 1439 · 1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a deprivation occurs pursuant to an established state procedure, pre-deprivation process is ordinarily feasible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Th[e] failure to provide any predeprivation process is actionable”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.