Dace v. Mickelson’s Empirical Analysis
816 F.2d 1277 · 1987
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson (1989), Johnson v. Rodriguez (1997)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Hewitt v. Helms · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Meachum v. Fano · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a review of a state rule, regulation, or practice”
2 later decisions 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.