Easter House v. Felder’s Empirical Analysis
879 F.2d 1458 · 1989
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Triad Associates, Inc. v. Chicago Housing Authority (1990), Easter House v. Felder (1990)
17 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Batson v. Kentucky · Parratt v. Taylor
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“discouraging the use of section 1983 as a supertort remedy to supplant existing state remedial procedures”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“An adoption agency without the staff required by state law can’t operate. Easter House concedes that for an extended period it lacked essential staff. It would be straightforward to hold that in such circumstances the Constitution does not require a hearing before the state may suspend the agency’s license and tell other public officials (such as the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court) what it has done. The parties have not made such an argument, so I join the majority’s opinion, which assumes that a prior hearing was necessary....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Greening v. Moran“pretextual investigation” in which another investigator posed as a prospective parent. Howard also undertook a thorough review of Easter House’s files with particular emphasis upon Easter House's dealings with Kurtz's foreign connections, apparently the foreign connections from which, according to Smith two years earlier, Kurtz planned”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.