Fisher v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
125 F.3d 974 · 1997
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Ziegler v. IBP Hog Market, Inc. (2001), Evans v. Pearson Enterprises, Inc. (2006)
10 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Foman v. Davis · LRL Properties v. Portage Metro Housing Authority · Sinay v. Lamson & Sessions Co. · Lawler v. Marshall
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“freely give leave [to amend] when justice so requires.”
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.