Branum v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
927 F.2d 698 · 1991
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 296 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Ricciuti v. Transit Authority (1991), Sheppard v. Beerman (1994)
65 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Conley v. Gibson · Foman v. Davis · Haines v. Kerner · Perry v. Sindermann
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 296 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A pro se complaint is to be read liberally. Certainly the court should not dismiss without granting leave to amend at least once when a liberal reading of the complaint gives any indication that a valid claim might be stated.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“applied with particular strictness when the plaintiff complains of a civil rights violation.”
3 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.