Burns v. County of King’s Empirical Analysis
883 F.2d 819 · 1989
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Olsen v. Idaho State Board of Medicine (2004), Sykes v. James (1993)
44 federal appellate · 6 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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Foman v. Davis · Malley v. Briggs · Imbler v. Pachtman · City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc.
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appointment of counsel in civil matters in the Ninth Circuit is restricted to exceptional circumstances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To state a claim for a conspiracy to violate one's constitutional rights under section 1983, the plaintiff must state specific facts to support the existence of the claimed conspiracy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To show exceptional circumstances the litigant must demonstrate the likelihood of success and complexity of the legal issues involved.”
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.