Ronald Zimmerman’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Warren, Brody
5 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Katz v. United States · Parratt v. Taylor · Hudson v. Palmer · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co.
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accepting as true all well-pleaded allegations of fact in the complaint and construing them in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Derrick Eason Serena Eason v. Clark County School District Robert T. Henry Mila Kitt Beverly J. Minnear, Derrick Eason Serena Eason v. Clark County School District Robert T. Henry Mila Kitt Beverly J. Minnear, Shawn Witte, a Minor, by His Next Friend and Parent, Teresa Witte, and Teresa Witte v. Clark County School District Robert T. Henry MacKe Woodard Beverly J. Minnear, Shawn Witte, a Minor, by His Next Friend and Parent, Teresa Witte, and Teresa Witte v. Clark County School District Robert T. Henry MacKe Woodard Beverly J. Minnear · Eason“random, unpredictable, and unauthorized ways”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A district court does not abuse its discretion when it disregards legal arguments made for the first time on a motion to amend, and a party that fails to introduce facts in a motion or opposition cannot introduce them later in a motion to amend by claiming that they constitute “newly discovered evidence” unless they were previously unavailable.”
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.