Kellas v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 492 · 1990
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Roth v. Lutheran General Hospital (1995), Smith v. Shettle (1991)
23 federal appellate · 1 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 Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson · Roland Machinery Company v. Dresser Industries Inc · Colon v. Schneider · Ping v. National Education Ass'n · Schwinn Bicycle Company v. Ross Bicycles Inc
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits; 2) the inadequacy of a remedy at law; 3) the existence of irreparable harm without the injunction; 4) that the threat of harm to the plaintiff outweighs any harm to the defendant if the injunction were issued; and 5) that the public interest would not be disserved if the injunction were granted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“these guidelines are directed toward the prison officials and, thus, do not create a due process claim of entitlement on the inmates' behalf.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Glenn v. Greer · Pardo v. Hosier“[places] substantive limitations on official discretion.”
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.