Robinson v. Moses’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Murphy v. Walker (1995), Magnus Electronics, Inc. v. Masco Corp. (1989)
4 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.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he crowded dockets of the federal courts cannot tolerate the burden posed by factually baseless suits that drain judicial resources. This court will sanction those cases, like this one, that are so meritless they can only waste the court's resources.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“discourage dilatory or abusive tactics and help to streamline the litigation process by lessening frivolous claims or defenses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the waste of judicial resources this suit has caused.”
2 later decisions 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.