Hattaway v. McMillian’s Empirical Analysis
903 F.2d 1440 · 1990
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Carr v. City of Florence (1990), Walker v. Anderson Electrical Connectors (1991)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. · Felder v. Casey
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... that it would serve no useful purpose to dismiss the complaint, for such a dismissal clearly must be without prejudice and with leave to amend.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Seventh Amendment demands that, if there is a view of the case which makes the jury’s answers consistent, this Court must adopt that view. It does not matter whether [the appellant] can suggest equally plausible reasons for the verdict that would require reversal. The test to be applied in reconciling apparent conflicts between the jury’s answers is whether the answers may fairly be said to represent a logical and probable decision on the relevant issues as submitted....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The statutes that allow the sheriffs to purchase [excess liability] insurance have been interpreted as a waiver of sovereign immunity up to the amount of the policy. Consequently, the fund’s purchase of the $1,000,000 policy constitutes a waiver of sovereign immunity up to that amount. The district court correctly refused to limit the judgment to $100,000.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.