Freeze v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 172 · 1988
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Burrell v. Newsome (1989), Veal v. Geraci (1994)
24 federal appellate · 8 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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Imbler v. Pachtman · Briscoe v. W · Ulmer v. Chancellor · Guajardo v. Estelle
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“further frivolous appeals will result in escalating sanctions”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zorn v. Smith · James v. Quinlan“That the district court did not find appellant's charges so redundant and frivolous as to warrant sanctions does not preclude a contrary decision on appeal.”
2 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.