Muriel D. Black v. Michael P. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
824 F.2d 561 · 1987
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Sarsha v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1993), DeWalt v. Carter (2000)
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Maclin v. Freake · Reardon v. Wroan · Hawkins v. Poole
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]bsent a compelling state interest, racial discrimination in administering prisons violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“made several specific allegations in support of his retaliation charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Black v. Lane“Credibility normally cannot be determined by summary judgment.”
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.