Palmer v. City of Decatur’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 426 · 1987
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Pruitt v. Mote (2007), Ball v. City of Chicago (1993)
23 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Hudson v. Palmer · Tennessee v. Garner · Dick v. Kemp · Reichman v. United States Fire Insurance
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“well-established duty of the trial court to ensure that the claims of a pro se litigant are given a fair and meaningful consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.