Veal v. Geraci’s Empirical Analysis
23 F.3d 722 · 1994
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Lukovsky v. City & County of San Francisco (2008), In re Kensington International Ltd. (2004)
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 United States v. Wade · Owens v. Okure · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · United States v. Security Industrial Bank
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the alleged conduct has caused the claimant harm and the claimant knows or has reason to know of the allegedly impermissible conduct and the resulting harm”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[A client] has notice of a fact if his [attorney] has knowledge of the fact, reason to know it or should know it, or has been given a notification of it.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[J]udicial verification that the defendants' acts were wrongful”
3 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.