Murrell v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
615 F.2d 306 · 1980
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably West v. Atkins (1988), Doe v. New York City Department of Social Services (1983)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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.
Relationships
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Ferguson v. National Broadcasting Co. · Brunswick Corp. v. Vineberg
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Gamble does not necessarily excuse one episode of gross misconduct merely because the overall pattern reflects general attentiveness.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“guard against premature truncation of legitimate lawsuits merely because of unskilled presentations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hulsey v. Texas · Kincaid v. Vail
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.