Keller v. Prince George's County’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 30 · 1991
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Martindale v. Tenny (1992), Nguyen v. CNA Corp. (1995)
20 federal appellate · 9 district · 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Edelman v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Dandridge v. Williams
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]otions to amend are committed to the discretion of the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Department is a local department of social services operated by the Maryland Department of Human Resources, an agency of the executive branch of state government. The employees of the Department receive fringe benefits and paychecks from the state and perform their duties subject to state personnel policy. State law and procedure dictate how the Department operates and organizes its programs. Only two percent of the Department's funding comes from the county with the remainder coming from the state and federal governments.”
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.