Brown v. Frey’s Empirical Analysis
806 F.2d 801 · 1986
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Edgington v. Missouri Department of Corrections (1995), Gerry C. Dubose v. State of Minnesota (1990)
20 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Raymond MOORE, Appellant, v. ST. LOUIS MUSIC SUPPLY COMPANY, INC., Appellee · Wiggins v. Sargent · Burgs v. Sissel · Pardee v. Stock
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' a clear record of delay or contumacious conduct by the plaintiff, '”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the degree of egregious conduct which prompted the order of dismissal and to a lesser extent upon the adverse impact of such conduct upon both the defendant and the administration of justice in the district court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“dismiss an action for the plaintiff's failure to comply with any court order and, unless otherwise specified, such a dismissal operates as an adjudication on the merits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. David v. Segal · Page v. Pung
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.