Brooks v. Dutton’s Empirical Analysis
751 F.2d 197 · 1985
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Harris v. Johnson (1986), Smith v. Rose (1985)
45 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Parratt v. Taylor · Vicory v. Walton · Tingler v. Marshall
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe that the State of Tennessee has provided adequate procedures to assure the return of items either negligently or intentionally converted, see Tenn.Code Ann. § 9-8-207, and in the absence of resort to state remedies, we do not believe that a federal court may assert jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he court ... may dismiss the case if the allegation of poverty is untrue, or if satisfied that the action is frivolous or malicious,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the plaintiff would appear to have no basis for establishing success on the merits for the reasons stated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Smith
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.