King v. Dogan’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 344 · 1994
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Colon v. Coughlin (1995), 194 W. Va. 52 - Williams v. Precision Coil, Inc. (1995)
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Skotak v. Tenneco Resins, Inc. · International Shortstop, Inc. v. Rally's, Inc.
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An amended complaint supersedes the original complaint and renders it of no legal effect unless the amended complaint specifically refers to and adopts or incorporates by reference the earlier pleading.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nauthenticated documents are improper as summary judgment evidence.”
2 later decisions 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.