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21 F.3d 775 · 1994

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
states following
November 2013
most recently cited

22 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Pittsburg County Rural Water District No. 7 v. City of McAlester (2004), Williams v. O'Leary (1995)

22 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

160199420002010decided

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 28 U.S.C. § 636

Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Monroe v. Pape · Wilson v. Garcia · Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla.

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

  1. “federal civil rights actions are governed by the personal injury statute of limitations in the state where the alleged injury occurred,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “state courts have `concurrent jurisdiction to enforce rights created by a federal statute,' such as § 1983”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “knows or has reason to know of the injury which is the basis of his action.”
    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.