Lyons v. Sheetz’s Empirical Analysis
834 F.2d 493 · 1987
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Topalian v. Ehrman (1992), Valley Ranch Development Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1992)
12 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Allen v. McCurry · Pierson v. Ray · Butz v. Economou · Stump v. Sparkman
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that relies on legal points that are not arguable on the merits.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a dismissal of a pro se complaint is warranted, it should generally be without prejudice in order to afford the plaintiff the opportunity to file an amended complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f a court of appeals shall determine that an appeal is frivolous, it may ... award just damages and single or double costs to the appellee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker
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.