Maul v. Constan’s Empirical Analysis
928 F.2d 784 · 1991
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Venters v. City of Delphi (1997), Knox v. State of Indiana (1996)
23 federal appellate ·
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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Washington v. Harper · Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection · Public Service Commission v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. · Reading Co. v. CJI Industries, 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he plain error doctrine does not apply to civil cases unless the error concerns subject matter jurisdiction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'at a minimum, [to an] internal administrative review of [the] prison physician's decision to administer antipsychotic drugs over [his] objection * * *.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maul v. Constan
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.