Daves v. Scranton’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1997
5 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · William J. Bauers, Jr. v. Herbert T. Heisel, Jr · Jones v. Bales · Edmond C. Fletcher v. Courtney R. Young and Eleanor M. Young, His Wife
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““after reviewing the complaint in its entirety, I find that, considering the absence of any recital of credible probative facts supporting the allegations which the plaintiff has made and the character of the facts and the allegations recited in the complaint, the suit is brought maliciously and for the purpose of harassing the defendants.” (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spencer v. Rhodes
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.