Easter House v. Felder’s Empirical Analysis
910 F.2d 1387 · 1990
Citation profile
99 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably Albright v. Oliver (1994), Brown v. Hot, Sexy & Safer Productions, Inc. (1995)
99 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · 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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Plaintiff] points to nothing which would indicate that the state knew or should have known that the [defendants] or other state employees had disregarded, or were likely to disregard the state’s established procedure____ sjs ♦ * * >¡C Ik Section 1983 must be preserved to remedy only those deprivations which actually occur without due process of law, such as those which result from a state’s conscious decision to ignore the protections guaranteed by the Constitution. It should not be employed to remedy deprivations which occur at the hands of a state employee who is acting in direct contravention of the state’s established policies and procedures which have been designed to guarantee the very protections which the employee now has chosen to ignore.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the appellants did exercise a certain amount of discretion and authority over the failure or success of renewal applications, that discretion was not `uncircumscribed' or otherwise unregulated.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n its most fundamental form, ... Zinermon holds only that predictable deprivations of liberty or property which flow from authorized conduct are compensable under § 1983.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Doria · Lowe v. Scott
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.