Button v. Harden’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 382 · 1987
Citation profile
49 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Rakovich v. Wade (1988), Spiegla v. Hull (2004)
49 federal appellate ·
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. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Marrese v. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons · University of Tennessee v. Elliott · 124 Ill. App. 3d 1004 - Edwards v. City of Quincy
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not only that his federal rights were violated but also that, had it not been for the violation, the injury of which he complains would not have occurred”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“brimming over with unconstitutional wrath”
2 later decisions 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.