Frank v. Relin’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Rankin v. McPherson
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assuring that relevant, material evidence [wa]s fully developed and made available to the prosecution and the defense to guarantee that defendants obtain[ed] a fair trial,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frank v. Relin“testified that the only reason for Frank's discharge was that she spoke to Pilato rather than her immediate supervisor or someone else in the chain of command,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frank v. Relin“was primarily concerned about what she perceived to be prosecutors' seeming indifference to evidence which may have been favorable to the defense,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frank v. Relin
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.