Crisafi v. Holland’s Empirical Analysis
655 F.2d 1305 · 1981
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 98 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Franklin v. Murphy (1984), Lindquist v. Idaho State Board of Corrections (1985)
45 federal appellate · 98 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Bounds v. Smith · Santoni v. United States
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court may dismiss as frivolous complaints reciting bare legal conclusions with no suggestion of supporting facts, or postulating events and circumstances of a wholly fanciful kind.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if satisfied that the action is frivolous or malicious.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] pro se complaint, like any other, must present a claim upon which relief can be granted by the court.”
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.