Collins v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
8 F.3d 657 · 1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2024
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Brewster v. Derwinski · California v. ARC America Corp. · California v. LaRue · Smithson v. United States · 115 Wash. 2d 657 - Berg v. Hudesman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A federal court may refuse to exercise continuing jurisdiction even though the parties have agreed to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“result in the court's over-involvement in the management of the state's prison.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collins v. Thompson“there are no present violations of constitutional rights”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collins v. Thompson
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.