Plaisance v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.2d 107 · 1988
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Mark Tourscher v. Martin Horn Secretary of the Pa Dept of Corrections (1999), Aetna Casualty Surety Co. v. P & B Autobody (1994)
14 federal appellate · 2 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 Evitts v. Lucey · Brulotte Et Al. v. Thys Company · Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · Stiltner v. Rhay · Davis v. United States Government
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment shall be rendered forthwith if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, written admissions, affidavits, transcripts of evidence, and written stipulations of fact, if any, timely filed in the action, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. * * * A summary judgment shall not be rendered unless it appears from the evidence or stipulation, and only from the evidence or stipulation, that reasonable minds can come to but one conclusion and that conclusion is adverse to the party against whom the motion for summary judgment is made, that party being entitled to have the evidence or stipulation construed most strongly in the party's favor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no federally protected right of a state prisoner not to work while imprisoned after conviction, even though that conviction is being appealed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact that appellant is appealing does not require the district court to assume that his conviction was other than duly obtained.”
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.