Walker v. Jastremski’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.3d 560 · 2005
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 785 F. Supp. 2d 269 - Grimes v. Fremont General Corp. (2011), 506 F. Supp. 2d 174 - Allah v. Poole (2007)
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Conley v. Gibson · Houston v. Lack · Pace v. Superintendent State Correctional Institution at Graterford · Ciambriello v. County of Nassau · Doe v. Menefee
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n order for 'extraordinary circumstances' to have prevented [a plaintiff] from timely filing [a] complaint, the information [ ] sought ... must have been necessary for that complaint to have been legally sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“extraordinary circumstances prevented a party from timely performing a required act, and that the party acted with reasonable diligence throughout the period he [sought] to toll.”
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.