Heinly v. Queen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “knowledge may be imputed to a government official when the original complaint names other government officers as defendants, the official to be added as a defendant is represented by the same government counsel as the original defendants, and counsel knew or should have known within the relevant time period that joinder of the additional official was a distinct possibility.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Garvin v. City of Philadelphia

2. “new defendant should have known that but for a mistake concerning identity the action would have been brought against him ... ‘whenever a party who may be liable for the actionable conduct alleged in the Complaint was omitted as a party defendant.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lundy v. Adamar of New Jersey, Inc.