Mark v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
983 F.2d 138 · 1993
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2010
14 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 Singleton v. Wulff · Turner v. Safley · Sanders v. Clemco Industries · Ouzts v. Cummins · South Dakota v. Hazen
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We generally do not consider an issue not decided by the district court, particularly when the outcome is debatable and our refusal will not otherwise produce a plain miscarriage of justice.”
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.