Lawson v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
863 F.2d 260 · 1988
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Ying Jing Gan v. City of New York (1993), Moss v. U.S. Secret Service (2009)
26 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Imbler v. Pachtman · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“present a question that is substantial, i.e., not doomed to failure under controlling precedent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“d[id] not clearly reveal the degree to which the conduct relied on could be considered part of the decision to prosecute or ... purely investigative[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kulwicki v. Dawson“An order that grants leave to amend the complaint is plainly not a final decision because it allows the litigation to continue”
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.