Harris v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
920 F.2d 864 · 1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Advise all staff members ... that individual employee recommendations to the Parole Board in behalf of inmates must end. It not only violates the principal [sic] of chain of command, but may in fact compromise individual employees.... Strict adherence to this policy is a requirement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Harris v. Evans
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.