Brennan v. Kulick’s Empirical Analysis
407 F.3d 603 · 2005
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2021
5 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Borelli v. City of Reading · Ahmed v. Dragovich · Cardio-Medical Associates, Ltd. v. Crozer-Chester Medical Center · Lynne Berke v. Paul H. Bloch
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a well recognized principle that a statute of limitations is not tolled by the filing of a complaint subsequently dismissed without prejudice. As regards the statutes of limitations, the original complaint is treated as if it never existed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olagues v. Frost“[O]rders which dismiss a [petition] without prejudice with leave to amend are not deemed final until ... the plaintiff has announced its intention to stand on its [petition].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McClellan v. State“general principle that a statute of limitations is not tolled by the filing of a complaint which is dismissed without prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olagues v. Frost
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.