Tripati v. Beaman’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.2d 351 · 1989
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 18 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Lonsdale v. United States (1990), De Long v. Hennessey (1990)
54 federal appellate · 18 district · 11 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. § 1651 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bounds v. Smith · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · Rice v. Norman Williams Co.
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he right of access to the courts is neither absolute nor unconditional, and there is no constitutional right of access to the courts to prosecute an action that is frivolous or malicious.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to regulate the activities of abusive litigants by imposing carefully tailored restrictions under the appropriate circumstances.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]njunctions are proper where the litigant's abusive and lengthy history is properly set forth.”
6 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.