Gelabert v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 746 · 1990
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Support Systems International, Inc. v. Mack (1995), Mendoza v. Lynaugh (1993)
8 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Rice v. Norman Williams Co. · Bradley v. J. F. Batte & Sons of Richmond, Inc. · in Re Jessie McDonald · Procup v. Strickland · Peck v. Hoff
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.
“Like any other every pastime, recreational litigation has its price; such sanctions as this are imposed for the very purpose of causing the would-be pro se prisoner litigant, with time on his hands and a disposition to retaliate against the system, to think twice before cluttering our dockets with frivolous or philosophical litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lowe v. Champion“forbade the clerk of court to accept for filing any further lawsuits on behalf of Plaintiff until the sanction is satisfied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Legg
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.