Flowers v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
956 F.2d 488 · 1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2013
8 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
Relies on Whitley v. Albers · Hudson v. McMillian · Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co. · Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc. · Johnson v. Morel
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any claim, demand, suit, or judgment in any court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flowers v. Phelps“the intentional wrongful act or gross negligence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flowers v. Phelps
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.