Cokeley v. Endell’s Empirical Analysis
27 F.3d 331 · 1994
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Neitzke v. Williams · Denton v. Hernandez · Hilton v. Braunskill · Stafford v. Oklahoma
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'is frivolous where it lacks an arguable basis either in law or in fact.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Hopkins
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.