Malone v. Colyer’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 258 · 1983
Citation profile
129 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2008 · most notably Neitzke v. Williams (1989), Franklin v. Murphy (1984)
129 federal appellate · 1 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 Conley v. Gibson · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Bell v. Wolfish · Bounds v. Smith
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts which would entitle him to relief.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be held to 'less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]ismissal of a pro se complaint is appropriate when it appears 'beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
4 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.