Hatch v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
919 F.2d 1266 · 1990
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019
5 federal appellate · 3 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 Turner v. Safley · Williams v. Lane · Hamilton v. California · Illinois Health Care Ass'n v. Illinois Department of Public Health · Joihner v. McEvers
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Equal protection addresses differential treatment among groups or classes of people who are similarly situated.”
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.