Thomas v. Egan’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
5 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · Graham v. Rj Henderson · Easton v. Sundram · Flaherty v. Coughlin
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim must be set forth in the pleadings, in order to give defendants fair notice of the nature of the plaintiff's claim. Thus, it is inappropriate to raise new claims for the first time in submissions in opposition to a summary judgment motion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]rdinarily, a district court presented with such a situation could grant plaintiff leave to amend [the] complaint,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“inappropriate to raise new claims for the first time in submissions in opposition to a summary judgment motion”
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.