Dotson v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
900 F.2d 77 · 1990
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Grune v. Coughlin (1990), First American Development Group/Carib, LLC v. WestLB AG (2011)
11 federal appellate ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Stack v. Boyle · Henry v. City of Detroit Manpower Department · Steven Guerra v. Edwin Meese, III
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'some circumstance making [the motion for bail] exceptional and deserving of special treatment in the interest of justice'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lee v. Jabe · Barnett Jr v. Hargett“There will be few occasions where a prisoner will meet [the] standard [for bail]. Moreover, it is doubtful that the district court or a circuit judge will issue the certificate of probable cause for an appeal required for appeals by state habeas petitioners in Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 22(b)....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lee v. Jabe“there is some merit to the argument that these bail decisions are often inextricably entwined with the merits,” but concluded that”
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.