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994 F.2d 1401 · 1993

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
2
states following
September 2016
most recently cited

30 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Bonin v. Calderon (1995), Moran v. Godinez (1995)

30 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions

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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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Hewitt v. Helms · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina · Olim v. Wakinekona · Baxter v. Palmigiano

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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “whether there is an absolute absence of evidence to support the jury's verdict.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Reginald Price v. Pimentel, Officer · Naftel v. Woods
  2. “Consent decrees have a dual nature, reflecting the attributes of both a contract and a judicial act. Though a consent decree has judicial features, it is the parties' consent [that] animates the legal force of a consent decree.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Eddie Willie Taylor · Robert Gilmore Jr Inmates United States of America v. People of the State of California
  3. “i.e., specific directives to the decisionmaker that if the regulations' substantive predicates are present, a particular outcome must follow.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Michael R. Hanline v. Robert G. Borg · Walker v. Sumner

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.