Denton v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1,045 federal appellate · 120 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,787 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably 234 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Hodges (2009), 197 Ill. 2d 239 - People v. Edwards (2001)
1,045 federal appellate · 120 district · 83 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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
reviewedHernandez v. Denton (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Neitzke v. Williams · Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail · Coppedge v. United States
Cited together with Neitzke v. Williams · Haines v. Kerner · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics
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 2,787 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if satisfied that the action is frivolous or malicious.”
150 later decisions quote this exact passage“lacks an arguable basis either in law or in fact.”
134 later decisions quote this exact passage“pierce the veil of the complaint's factual allegations and dismiss those claims whose factual contentions are clearly baseless.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.