Taylor v. Knapp’s Empirical Analysis
871 F.2d 803 · 1989
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Albright v. Oliver (1994), Rowland v. California Men's Colony, Unit II Men's Advisory Council (1993)
50 federal appellate · 3 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 Parratt v. Taylor · Hudson v. Palmer · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Pell v. Procunier · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Claiborne Hardware Co.
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he fourth amendment does not protect an inmate from the seizure and destruction of his property.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A motion for reconsideration of summary judgment is appropriately brought under either Federal Rule 59(e) or Federal Rule 60(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“brings up for review only that denial and not the underlying judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stobaugh v. Wood
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.