Robbins v. Chronister’s Empirical Analysis
402 F.3d 1047 · 2005
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2024
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Carey v. Piphus · Farrar v. Hobby · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he plainness or ambiguity of statutory language is determined by reference to the language itself, the specific context in which that language is used, and the broader context of the statute as a whole.”). . Robbins v. Chronister, 402 F.3d 1047, 1050 (10th Cir.2005) (citing and quoting Hubbard v. United States, 514 U.S. 695, 703 , 115 S.Ct. 1754 , 131 L.Ed.2d 779 (1995) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Sedillo“an absurd and unjust result which Congress could not have intended,”
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.