Abdullah v. Gatto’s Empirical Analysis
773 F.2d 487 · 1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Procup v. Strickland (1986), Safir v. United States Lines Inc. (1986)
11 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Martin-Trigona v. Lavien · In re Green
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he order is overbroad in effectively blocking any action whatsoever relating to his arrest, conviction and imprisonment in that it precludes Abdullah from filing even a meritorious claim. Whatever overbreadth exists, however, can be easily cured by modifying the injunction to require Abdullah to seek leave of the district court before filing such actions."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“directing the clerk to `refuse any additional filings or complaints by Abdullah arising out of the same general subject matter . . . [of] his arrest, trial, conviction and imprisonment without Abdullah first paying the appropriate court costs and filing fees.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“taken together [are] so burdensome as to deny the litigant meaningful access to the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Procup v. Strickland
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.