Savory v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.3d 667 · 2006
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021 · most notably District Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne (2009), Skinner v. Switzer (2011)
9 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Brady v. State of Maryland · Wolff v. McDonnell · Heck v. Humphrey · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The continuing violation doctrine is ... applicable when the state actor has a policy or practice that brings with it a fresh violation each day.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tobey v. Chibucos
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.