Craft v. Wipf’s Empirical Analysis
836 F.2d 412 · 1987
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Johnson-El v. Schoemehl (1989), Orebaugh v. Caspari (1990)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Bounds v. Smith
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Mlust have more than a unilateral expectation of it. He [or she] must, instead, have a legitimate claim of entitlement to it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“create a constitutionally protected interest by establishing statutory or regulatory measures that impose substantive limitations on the exercise of official discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“understandings between the state and the other party.”
1 later decision 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.