Fry v. Melaragno’s Empirical Analysis
939 F.2d 832 · 1991
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably No. 90-6051 (1991), Bly-Magee v. California (2001)
53 federal appellate · 10 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, [this court] will not consider an issue raised for the first time on appeal....”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wells · Holden v. Babcock“intimately associated with the judicial phases”
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.