Muhammad v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.2d 175 · 1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2014
11 federal appellate ·
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 Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Bell v. Wolfish · Hewitt v. Helms · Meachum v. Fano · Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“couched in 'unmistakably mandatory' language,”
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.