Boag v. MacDougall’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
110 federal appellate · 72 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 395 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Hudson v. Palmer (1984), Denton v. Hernandez (1992)
110 federal appellate · 72 district · 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBoag v. MacDougall (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Dandridge v. Williams · United States v. New York Telephone 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 395 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“state a claim upon which relief can be granted” was characterized not as an abuse of discretion but as”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“this Court is not equipped to correct every perceived error coming from the lower federal courts,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As Justice REHNQUIST has reminded us, in 'our zeal to provide "equal justice under law,”
2 later decisions 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.