Brekke v. Morrow’s Empirical Analysis
840 F.2d 4 · 1988
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2013
14 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Foremost Sales Promotions, Inc. v. Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an order intended to terminate a litigation do[ ] so unequivocally.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in denying a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis the district court can set a deadline for payment of the required filing fee and provide in the order that if the deadline passes without the fee being paid, the order will ripen into a final judgment of dismissal without further order.”
1 later decision 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.