Williams v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on In Re the Appeal From the Civil Penalty · 113 N.C. App. 589 - Sharp v. Teague · 76 N.C. App. 284 - Stanford v. Owens · 134 N.C. App. 294 - Staley v. Lingerfelt · 98 N.C. App. 432 - Webster v. Powell
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although [the plaintiff] contends the causes of action in her second complaint were timely under Rule 41 because they arose out of the same facts and transactions as her first complaint, binding precedent requires that we look only at whether the claims in the second complaint were included in the first complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]f an action commenced within the time prescribed therefor, or any claim therein, is dismissed without prejudice ... a new action based on the same claim may be commenced within one year after such dismissal ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the relation-back provision in Rule 41(a)(1) only applies to those claims in the second complaint that were included in the voluntarily-dismissed first complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.