McKeever v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
932 F.2d 795 · 1991
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Pagano v. Frank (1993), Trevino v. Gates (1996)
84 federal appellate · 16 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Neitzke v. Williams · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Karim-Panahi v. Los Angeles Police Department · Franklin v. Murphy
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]ith respect to dispositive matters, a magistrate is only permitted to make recommendations for final disposition by an Article III judge who reviews his findings and recommendation, if objected to, de novo.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Article III of the United States Constitution imposes limitations upon the role which the magistrates, who are not Article III judges vested with life tenure or salary protections, can play.... [W]ith respect to dispositive matters, a magistrate is only permitted to make recommendations for final disposition by an Article III judge....”
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.