Barnes v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.3d 807 · 2008
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022
2 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Illinois Central District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Behrens v. Pelletier · Green v. Mansour · Florida Department of State v. Treasure Salvors, Inc. · Demarest v. Manspeaker · Pennsylvania Bureau of Correction v. United States Marshals Service
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do not compromise state sovereignty to a significant degree,”
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.