Brandley v. Keeshan’s Empirical Analysis
64 F.3d 196 · 1995
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Cousin v. Small (2003), Uboh v. Reno (1998)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Heck v. Humphrey · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Imbler v. Pachtman · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit · Stump v. Sparkman
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]ypically, an order of dismissal based on the running of the statute of limitations on the crime or an order of dismissal reflecting an affirmative decision not to prosecute are examples of such a termination .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even a prosecutor's failure to act on remand will at some point entitle a defendant to an order of dismissal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“impacts the question of whether or not Brandley's § 1983 claims are ripe for adjudication, [but that] those claims remain pending below and are not before [the court] on this appeal.”
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.