Franco v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
854 F.2d 584 · 1988
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 13 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Colon v. Coughlin (1995), Graham v. Rj Henderson (1996)
68 federal appellate · 13 district · 7 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. § 1746 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Wolff v. McDonnell · Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams
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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intentional obstruction of a prisoner's right to seek redress of grievances”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Warmus v. Hank · Hightower v. Vose“[I]t is well established that an act in retaliation for the exercise of a constitutionally protected right is actionable under [42 U.S.C.] Section 1983 even if the act, when taken for a different reason, would have been proper.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Smith v. Maschner · Hale v. Townley“should not be any less entitled to relief under section 1983 because he was addressing his complaints to a state administrative agency rather than to a court of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.