Green v. John Doe’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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

1. “Plaintiff had the assistance of discovery [in Jacobsen ] but failed to take advantage of that power and depose witnesses in a timely manner that would have allowed him to identify the ‘John Doe’ and amend his complaint. Green, in contrast, sued almost eleven months before the running of the statute and, given the specificity of knowledge he had, if he had not been denied discovery he would have had sufficient time to identify the officer and amend his complaint under rule 15(a) without need to relate back under rule 15(c).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Amin-Akbari v. City of Austin

2. “if the claim asserted arose out of the same conduct set forth in. the original pleading and the new defendant, within the time provided by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(m), received notice of the filing of the original action so that he would not be prejudiced in presenting a defense on the merits, and the new defendant “knew or should have known that but for a mistake concerning the identity of the proper party, the action would have been brought against the new party.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Amin-Akbari v. City of Austin