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Anderson v. Coughlin’s Empirical Analysis

700 F.2d 37 · 1983

Citation profile

79
cited by 79 later decisions
July 2017
most recently cited

29 federal appellate · 3 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Franklin v. Murphy (1984), Green v. McKaskle (1986)

29 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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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 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Anders v. California · Conley v. Gibson · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Scheuer v. Rhodes · 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'nothing to lose and everything to gain'”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. White v. White · Cespedes v. Coughlin
  2. “expansion of the record protects the unskilled litigant and enables the court to make an informed decision regarding the merits of an action by reference to the reality of the situation rather than by speculating as to the nature of the claim”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Salahuddin v. Coughlin · Cay v. Wj Estelle
  3. “unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Green v. Maraio · Green v. McKaskle

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.