Dugan v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
818 F.2d 513 · 1987
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Meador v. Cabinet for Human Resources (1990), Miller v. Currie (1995)
54 federal appellate · 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. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Parratt v. Taylor · Monroe v. Pape · Daniels v. Williams · Hudson v. Palmer
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[A] complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether the district court correctly dismissed [the plaintiff's] claims pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) is a question of law subject to de novo review.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is a 'seizure' under the fourth amendment, and [the Fourth Amendment] requires that the means used to effect the arrest be reasonable, which is determined by balancing the extent of the intrusion against the need for it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.