Boudin v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
April 1984
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Hutto v. Finney · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Powell v. Dellums · King v. Greenblatt · McCann v. Coughlin
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 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“obviously excessive in light of the petition presented to the court and its legal issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boudin v. Thomas
How this case has been treated — in progress
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