Hernandez v. Denton’s Empirical Analysis
861 F.2d 1421 · 1988
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2013 · most notably Denton v. Hernandez (1992), Sands II v. Lewis Adoc (1989)
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
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 Anders v. California · Conley v. Gibson · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“draft a few sentences explaining to the plaintiff the deficiencies and allow the plaintiff to amend.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is absolutely clear that the deficiencies of the complaint could not be cured by amendment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'capable of accurate and ready determination by resort to sources whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned.'”
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.