Marshall v. Bramer’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Oppenheimer Fund, Inc. v. Sanders · Bates v. City of Little Rock · Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee · People of State of New York Bryant v. Zimmerman
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“findings and rulings contained in [five]' cases in which the Ku Klux Klan is identified as a violence-prone group with a history of harassing, intimidating, and injuring blacks and members of other minority groups ... [and] of [18] criminal cases in which individual Klan members were found or pleaded guilty to numerous crimes, many involving racial violence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marshall v. Bramer“if the information sought appears reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marshall v. Bramer“any matter, not privileged, which is relevant to the subject matter involved in the pending action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marshall v. Bramer
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.