Cinel v. Connick’s Empirical Analysis
15 F.3d 1338 · 1994
Citation profile
148 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 539 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Ramming v. United States (2001), Pani v. Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield (1998)
148 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Paul v. Davis · Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit
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 539 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellant abandons all issues not raised and argued in its initial brief on appeal.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accepting all well-pleaded facts as true and viewing those facts in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A party who inadequately briefs an issue is considered to have abandoned the claim.”
4 later decisions 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.