Breck v. Ulmer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Peterson v. Ek (2004), Schmitz v. Schmitz (2004)
1 district · 92 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Haines v. Kerner · Tenney v. Brandhove · Barr v. Matteo · Lake Country Estates, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'We believe the trial court should inform a pro se litigant of the proper procedure for what he or she is obviously trying to accomplish.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[PJro se litigants should be held to less stringent standards than those of lawyers.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Khalsa v. CHOSE · Hunter v. Conwell“'follow federal precedent for determining whether qualified immunity should be conferred for executive acts alleged to contravene a [state] statutory or constitutional mandate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.