Franklin v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
745 F.2d 1221 · 1984
Citation profile
191 federal appellate · 17 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 315 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Neitzke v. Williams (1989), Max Lopez Jr v. Ga Smith Larry Loo a Acevedo Patterson 4a-2r (2000)
191 federal appellate · 17 district · 7 state decisions
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 Anders v. California · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Bell v. Hood
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 315 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absolutely clear that the deficiencies of the complaint could not be cured by amendment.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the sound discretion of the trial court and is granted only in exceptional circumstances.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“satisfied that the action is frivolous or malicious.”
7 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.