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492 F. Supp. 2d 474 - Brown v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
October 2013
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915

Relies on Harsco Corp. v. Zlotnicki · Abdul-Akbar v. McKelvie · Brown v. Blaine · Brown v. James · Brown v. PA. DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

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.

  1. “[N]umerous other cases [have been] dismissed against Brown for being frivolous, brought in bad faith, or failing to state a claim. See, e.g., Brown v. Brierton, et al., No. 91-CV-471 (M.D.[]Fla. Oct. 17, 1991) (Black, J.) (doc. no. 6) (dismissing prisoner rights case for abuse of judicial process); Brown v. Brierton, No. 92-2030 (11th Cir. Feb. 10, 1992) (denying appeal of prisoner civil rights case because appeal was not taken in good faith under Rule 24(a) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure since the case was dismissed without prejudice for Brown’s abuse of the judicial process); Brown v. Barton, et al., No. 93-CV-45 (M.D.[]Fla. Sep[t]. 12, 1994) (Moore II, J.) (denying appeal of prisoner civil rights case because not taken in good faith); Brown v. Federal Laboratories, Inc., No. 89-507 (M.D.[]Fla.1989) (dismissing claim as frivolous)....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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