Marshall v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
445 F.3d 965 · 2006
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Concentra Health Services, Inc. (2007), Kaba v. Ea Stepp E (2006)
16 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915A · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Haines v. Kerner · Koon v. United States · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · Bounds v. Smith
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`short and plain statement of the claim' sufficient to notify the defendants of the allegations against them and enable them to file an answer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is, by now, axiomatic that district courts have a special responsibility to construe pro se complaints liberally and to allow ample opportunity for amending the complaint when it appears that by so doing the pro se litigant would be able to state a meritorious claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kaba v. Ea Stepp E“A party may amend the party's pleading once as a matter of course at any time before a responsive pleading is served.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kaba v. Ea Stepp E
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.