Meis v. Gunter’s Empirical Analysis
906 F.2d 364 · 1990
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Forbes v. Trigg (1992), Chesterfield Development Corporation v. City of Chesterfield M R (1992)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Baker v. Carr · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Snowden v. Hughes
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A violation of state law, without more, is not the equivalent of a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he plaintiff must show that he 'has sustained or is immediately in danger of sustaining some direct injury' as the result of the challenged official conduct and the injury or threat of injury must be both 'real and immediate,' not 'conjectural' or 'hypothetical.'”
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.