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203 F.3d 1122 · 2000
Citation profile
221 federal appellate · 52 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,156 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Grayson v. Mayview State Hospital (2002), Vasquez v. County of Los Angeles (2003)
221 federal appellate · 52 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Foman v. Davis · Neitzke v. Williams · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Crawford-El v. Britton
Cited together with Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Farmer v. Brennan · Foman v. Davis · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H
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 1,156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a district court should grant leave to amend even if no request to amend the pleading was made, unless it determines that the pleading could not possibly be cured by the allegation of other facts.”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the underlying purpose of Rule 15 to facilitate decisions on the merits, rather than on the pleadings or technicalities.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be freely given when justice so requires,”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.