Watts v. Burkhart’s Empirical Analysis
854 F.2d 839 · 1988
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Zinermon v. Burch (1990), Richardson v. Tennessee Board of Dentistry (1995)
40 federal appellate · 9 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 Younger v. Harris · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Parratt v. Taylor · Monroe v. Pape · Daniels v. Williams
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in light of [the Supreme Court's] concern with principles of comity and federalism!,]””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The rule in Parratt and Vicory, is clearly inapplicable "where the deprivation of property is caused by conduct pursuant to established state procedure, rather than random and unauthorized conduct." Hudson v. Palmer (1983), 468 U.S. 517 ." Watts v. Burkhart (1988), 854 F.2d 839 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is sufficient ... that constitutional claims may be raised in state-court judicial review of the administrative proceeding.”
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.