Bishop v. Cross’s Empirical Analysis
790 F.2d 38 · 1986
Citation profile
41 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably Carver v. Bunch (1991), Harris v. Callwood (1988)
41 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Flaksa v. Little River Marine Construction Co. · Colorado v. Franc · Gonzalez v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. · Robert Duane Copas v. Wilbur J. Schmidt
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“degree of willfulness, bad faith or contumacious conduct”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“extremely harsh in that it deprives a plaintiff of his day in court due to the inept actions of his counsel”
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.