Franklin v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
981 F.2d 1168 · 1992
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 17 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Hawkins v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1996), Cottrell v. Kaysville City (1993)
11 federal appellate · 17 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Allen v. McCurry · Gregory v. United States · Reavis v. Antinore · Applied Genetics International, Inc. v. First Affiliated Securities, Inc. · Haring v. Prosise
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“give preclusive effect to state-court judgments whenever the courts of the State from which the judgments emerged would do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only when the verdict is clearly, decidedly or overwhelmingly against the weight of the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A claim of false arrest is premised on a lack of probable cause, a constitutional right under the Fourth Amendment.”
1 later decision 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.