Wright v. Newsome’s Empirical Analysis
795 F.2d 964 · 1986
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Mitchell v. Farcass (1997), Day v. Taylor (2005)
50 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Parratt v. Taylor · Hudson v. Palmer · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · Johnson v. Avery
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. D.L. Day, Nick Ceh v. John T. Taylor, E. Joseph Shoen, U-Haul International, Inc., Republic Western Insurance Company, U-Haul Company of Pennsylvania, Inc., D.L. Day, P.C. Boyle, J.D. Swope v. John T. Taylor, E. Joseph Shoen, U-Haul International, Inc., Republic Western Insurance Company, U-Haul Company of Pennsylvania, Inc. · Day v. Taylor“alleged facts bringing actions that might not otherwise be offensive to the Constitution, such as the search itself or the confiscation and destruction of [legal and] nonlegal materials..., within the scope of the Constitution by alleging that the actions were taken in retaliation for filing lawsuits and administrative grievances”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Crowley“at any time before a responsive pleading is served.”
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.