Bontkowski v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
305 F.3d 757 · 2002
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Pearson v. Welborn (2006), Clark v. City of Braidwood (2003)
12 federal appellate · 3 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 City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · O'Shea v. Littleton · Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance v. Knudson · Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Wetzel · Beatty v. . Guggenheim Exploration 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t would be appropriate and indeed quite sensible for a judge confronting a complaint that does not demand proper relief to ascertain whether the plaintiff wants the improper relief sought in the complaint or nothing; if so, the complaint must be dismissed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Siddiqui v. Cissna“[w]e doubt in any event that the rules regarding representation by the government of its employees are intended for the protection of opposing litigants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodriguez v. Cooper“the demand is not itself a part of the [P]laintiff[s'] claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Siddiqui v. Cissna
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.