Shabazz v. Askins’s Empirical Analysis
980 F.2d 1333 · 1992
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Templeman v. Gunter (1994), Olson v. Stotts (1993)
20 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 Neitzke v. Williams · Denton v. Hernandez · Hall v. Bellmon · Martinez v. Aaron · Bradenburg v. Beaman
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gives the district court 'the unusual power to pierce the veil of the complaint's factual allegations and dismiss [as frivolous] those claims whose factual contentions are clearly baseless.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A court may consider the Martinez report in making its clearly baseless determination, but 'it cannot resolve material disputed factual findings when they are in conflict with the pleadings or affidavits.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gonzalez v. Story“[a] plausible factual allegation, even if it lacks evidentiary support, is not 'frivolous' as contemplated by Sec. 1915(d) even though it may not survive a motion for summary judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mears v. Singleton
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.