Dixon v. Chrans’s Empirical Analysis
986 F.2d 201 · 1993
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Baxter ex rel. Baxter v. Vigo County School Corp. (1994), Provident Savings Bank v. Popovich (1995)
21 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 Wilson v. Garcia · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · Owens v. Okure · Felder v. Casey · Burnett v. Grattan
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.
“inconsistent with the purposes of § 1983, which are prevention of the abuse of state power and compensation for violations of constitutional rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(iii) is imprisoned on a criminal charge and the claim is not against the Illinois Department of Corrections or any past or present employee or official of the Department of Corrections, then he or she may bring an action within two years after ... [he or she] ceases to be imprisoned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“while a state may choose not to confer a tolling benefit at all ... it may not generally confer such a benefit but withhold it with respect to claims brought against government officials when this results in a burden on the federal cause of action.”
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.