Allen v. Lowder’s Empirical Analysis
875 F.2d 82 · 1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2015
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Imbler v. Pachtman · Rizzo v. Goode · Briscoe v. W
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot seriously argue that his actions resulted from any advocacy role in rehabilitating [the plaintiff's] conviction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Houston v. Partee“acting in a purely administrative capacity ... and is, therefore, not entitled to absolute immunity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not himself participate in the presentation of the state's appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Houston v. Partee
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.