Dukes v. Smitherman’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.3d 535 · 1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2018
2 federal appellate ·
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 Wilson v. Garcia · Owens v. Okure · Preuit & Mauldin Et Al. v. Jones · Burrell v. Newsome · Jones v. Preuit & Mauldin
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the prisoner is freed from confinement, regardless of whether it is by an illegal means or by a legitimate means, the statute of limitations begins to run and it is not tolled by any subsequent imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ederal courts must look to state law to determine, first, what statute of limitations is applicable, and second, whether that limitations period is tolled”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collier v. Buckner“his reincarceration did not toll the period a second time.”
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.