Lawson v. Glover’s Empirical Analysis
957 F.2d 801 · 1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2017
6 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Wilson v. Garcia · Flintkote Company v. Dravo Corporation B F · Everhart v. Rich's, Inc. · Allrid v. Emory University
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mentally and physically incapacitated so as to be incapable of acting for himself in carrying on his business and in prosecuting his claim.”
2 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.