Spreen v. Brey’s Empirical Analysis
961 F.2d 109 · 1992
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2019
10 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Sullivan v. United States · Morgan Walton Properties, Inc. v. International City Bank & Trust Co. · Covington v. Department of Health & Human Services
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rulings in other circuits are instructive on what the law is as to constitutionally protected rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.