Behrens v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
October 2003
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Houston v. Lack
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]tate law and this Court's Rules establish the filing date ... as the date when... the item is actually received by the Clerk before the close of business in proper order and with the necessary number of copies and all necessary filing fees, or a pauper's affidavit for waiver of filing fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burger v. Scott
How this case has been treated — in progress
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