Fulton v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
289 F.3d 188 · 2002
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 21 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Jaegly v. Couch (2006), Williams v. Town of Greenburgh (2008)
7 federal appellate · 21 district ·
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. § 455 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Benton v. Maryland · Liteky et al United States · Hudson v. United States · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a wrong or improper motive, something other than a desire to see the ends of justice served.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a] person is guilty of harassment in the second degree when, with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person . . . [h]e or she engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits acts which alarm or seriously annoy such other person and which serve no legitimate purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jaegly v. Couch“A criminal proceeding terminates favorably to the accused, for purposes of a malicious prosecution claim, when the final disposition of the proceeding involves the merits and indicates the accused's innocence.”
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.