Horsey v. Asher’s Empirical Analysis
741 F.2d 209 · 1984
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Frazier v. Dubois (1990), Nash v. Black (1986)
26 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 · Haines v. Kerner · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Federal Power Commission · Smith v. Bacon · Carter v. Telectron, Inc.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“beyond a doubt that petitioner 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 majoritye.g. Green v. Black · Haley v. Dormire“It is the maliciousness of the complaint, not of the plaintiff personally, that is important”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Caseworker“plainly part of a longstanding pattern of abusive and repetitious lawsuits,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Caseworker
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.