Procup v. Strickland’s Empirical Analysis
760 F.2d 1107 · 1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2011
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 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. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Bounds v. Smith · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is an ominous abandonment of judicial responsibility, the import of which far exceeds the actual abuse attributable even to the exceptional [pro se] litigant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zorn 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.