Procup v. Strickland’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 1069 · 1986
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 10 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably in Re Jessie McDonald (1989), Klay v. United Healthgroup, Inc. (2004)
68 federal appellate · 10 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 1654 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 46 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Faretta v. California · Wolff v. McDonnell · Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams
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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'— directed the litigant to attach to future complaints a list of all cases previously filed involving the same, similar, or related cause of action, and to send an extra copy of each pleading filed to the law clerk of the chief judge of the district;”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'We do not here design the kind of injunction that would be appropriate in this case. Considerable discretion necessarily is reposed in the district court. Procup can be severely restricted as to what he may file and how he must behave in his applications for judicial relief. He just cannot be completely foreclosed *Page 244 from any access to the court. The injunction is vacated and the case is remanded for the district court to consider an appropriate substitute order.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Federal courts have both the inherent power and the constitutional obligation to protect their jurisdiction from conduct which impairs their ability to carry out Article III functions.”
5 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.