Morrison v. Lipscomb’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 463 · 1989
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Barrett v. Harrington (1997), Cameron v. Seitz (1994)
16 federal appellate · 2 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Baker v. Carr · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Boddie v. Connecticut
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not alter the rights and liabilities of any parties but, rather, instructed court personnel on how to process the petitions made to the court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“between parties who have invoked the jurisdiction of a court....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on a functional analysis to determine which acts are protected, meaning that one must determine whether the actions are truly judicial acts or 'acts that simply happen to have been done by judges.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mann v. Conlin
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.