Wilson v. Rackmill’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.2d 772 · 1989
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 41 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Mitchell v. Horn (2003), Jackson II v. State of Arizona (1989)
18 federal appellate · 41 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Neitzke v. Williams · Universal Minerals, Inc. v. C. A. Hughes & Co. · Wisniewski v. Johns-Manville Corp.
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dismissal under Sec. 1915(d) is appropriate when the claims are based on an indisputably meritless legal theory or on clearly baseless factual contentions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a complaint raises an arguable question of law which the district court ultimately finds is correctly resolved against the plaintiff, dismissal on Rule 12(b)(6) grounds is appropriate, but dismissal on the basis of frivolousness is not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Osborn v. Shillinger“a problem more properly addressed under Rule 12(b)(6)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nance v. Kelly
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.