Harris v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 222 · 1986
Citation profile
103 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Lawler v. Marshall (1990), Cochran v. Morris (1996)
103 federal appellate ·
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 Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Tingler v. Marshall · Spruytte v. Walters · Malone v. Colyer
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a dismissal is to occur sua sponte under the limited exceptions provided by section 1915(d), the trial court must explicitly state that the statute is being invoked and that the complaint is being dismissed as frivolous.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts which would entitle him to relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be held to 'less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers.”
2 later decisions 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.