Knowlton Merritt v. John E. MacKey and Jerry Howard, Knowlton Merritt v. John E. MacKey Steve Vincent’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Jeffries v. Wood (1997), Oviatt Waugh v. Pearce Oviatt Waugh (1992)
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Hensley v. Eckerhart
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one panel of an appellate court will not as a general rule reconsider questions which another panel has decided on a prior appeal in the same case.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly erroneous and would work a manifest injustice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]nhancements ... are only appropriate when supported by a showing that such enhancement is necessary to attract competent counsel in the relevant community for the class of cases in question.”
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.