Abernathy v. Dewey’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
December 2022
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Estelle v. Gamble · Foman v. Davis · Farmer v. Brennan
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 15(c)(1)(A) 'cements in place a one-way ratchet; less restrictive state relation-back rules will displace federal relation-back rules, but more restrictive state-relation back rules will not.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Salmon v. Lang“state-law claims relate back is an issue of Massachusetts law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Salmon v. Lang
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.