Blakely v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project · Denny v. Barber · Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors v. U.S. Bank N.A. · Salahuddin v. Cuomo
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.
“Because the District Court did not find Plaintiffs' claims to be entirely frivolous on their face, we conclude that the District Court exceeded its allowable discretion in dismissing the action without affording Plaintiffs an opportunity to amend.”
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.