Todd v. Baskerville’s Empirical Analysis
712 F.2d 70 · 1983
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably Nasim v. Warden, Maryland House of Correction (1995), Young v. Kenny (1989)
78 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
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Preiser v. Rodriguez · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · United States v. Rodgers · Boyce v. Alizaduh
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“recognized that there was some dispute in the authorities on the power of the Court to consider affirmative defenses in ruling on dismissal for frivolousness under § 1915(d) but concluded that such defenses could be considered ‘in certain limited circumstances, such as those found in the case at bar.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any claim of damages is purely ancillary to and dependent on a favorable resolution of the length or duration of sentence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crump v. Lane“cannot bring a Sec. 1983 action, even though the literal terms of Sec. 1983 might seem to cover such a challenge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leonard v. Hammond
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.