Fields v. Durham’s Empirical Analysis
909 F.2d 94 · 1990
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably New Burnham Prairie Homes, Inc. v. Village of Burnham (1990), Caine v. Hardy (1991)
12 federal appellate · 8 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Parratt v. Taylor · Hudson v. Palmer · Zinermon v. Burch
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e first ask whether the risk of an erroneous deprivation was foreseeable.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“due process violation actionable under § 1983 is not complete when the deprivation occurs; it is not complete unless and until the State fails to provide due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consult the entire panoply of predeprivation and postdeprivation process provided by the state.”
2 later decisions 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.