Joihner v. McEvers’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.2d 569 · 1990
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Carnegie v. United States · Hewitt v. Helms · Meachum v. Fano · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear from the language ... that the Department is given discretion over job assignment decisions.... [T]here is no mandatory language requiring a particular outcome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace v. Robinson
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.