Groseclose v. Dutton’s Empirical Analysis
829 F.2d 581 · 1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Gillespie v. Crawford (1988), State v. West (1989)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 1292
Relies on Walker v. Mintzes · Goff v. Menke · Grubbs v. Bradley · William Groseclose v. Michael Dutton · 594 F. Supp. 949 - Groseclose Ex Rel. Harries v. Dutton
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To allow two or more district judges to issue directions to prison officials simultaneously would be to create what the Goff [v. Menke, 672 F.2d 702 , 705 (8th Cir.1982) ] court aptly characterized as an 'inefficient' situation, fraught with potential for inconsistency, confusion, and unnecessary expense.”
3 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.