Lintz v. Skipski’s Empirical Analysis
25 F.3d 304 · 1994
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Anthony Nicini Jr v. Edward Morra (2000), Stemler v. City of Florence (1997)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Penson v. Ohio · Mayers v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[S]tate officials must have some time to adjust to and learn about judge-made law as it evolves.... This [the Sixth] and other circuits have struggled to decide how long after a decision state officials have to become familiar with 'the law.’ ” Id. at 306 . Lintz then cited an extensive list of cases allowing from twelve days to five months.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.