Eldridge v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
832 F.2d 1132 · 1987
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 27 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 205 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Karim-Panahi v. Los Angeles Police Department (1988), McGuckin v. Smith (1992)
125 federal appellate · 27 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 18 U.S.C. § 3182 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Haines v. Kerner · Bounds v. Smith · Hughes v. Rowe · Wenzler v. Pitchess
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 205 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a definite and firm conviction that the court below committed a clear error of judgment in the conclusion it reached upon a weighing of the relevant factors.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Supreme Court has instructed the federal courts to liberally construe the 'inartful pleading' of pro se litigants.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, before dismissing a pro se complaint the district court must provide the litigant with notice of the deficiencies in his complaint in order to ensure that the litigant uses the opportunity to amend effectively.”
12 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.