Rev. Kinnith R. Nicholson v. Ruth L. Rushen’s Empirical Analysis
767 F.2d 1426 · 1985
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Brooktree Corporation v. Advanced Micro Devices Inc (1992), Hashimoto v. Dalton (1997)
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Relies on Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina · Wolfolk v. Rivera · Mekdeci v. Merrell National Laboratories · Kushner v. Winterthur Swiss Insurance
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has no right to effective assistance of counsel”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is generally no right to counsel in a civil case.”
1 later decision 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.