Freeman v. Busch’s Empirical Analysis
349 F.3d 582 · 2003
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Thomas v. Corwin (2007), Sherman v. Winco Fireworks, Inc. (2008)
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 Nero v. Kansas State University · Eiseman v. State · University of Denver v. Whitlock · Schaller Telephone Company v. Golden Sky Systems Inc · Kleinknecht v. Gettysburg College
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the district court has filed a . . . pretrial scheduling order, it may properly require that good cause be shown for leave to file an amended pleading that is substantially out of time under that order.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Corwin · Thomas v. Corwin“[S]ince the late 1970s, the general rule is that no special relationship exists between a college and its own students because a college is not an insurer of the safety of its students”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he 'egg-shell plaintiff' rule ... in essence [states that] a defendant takes a plaintiff as he finds [him].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brewington v. Keener
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.