Preuit & Mauldin Et Al. v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
116 federal appellate · 40 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 292 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Owens v. Okure (1989), Meade v. Grubbs (1988)
116 federal appellate · 40 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · California v. Texas · Garcia v. Wilson · O'Neill v. City of New York
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 292 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]onflicting principles . . . have determined the statutes of limitations chosen for § 1983 actions in the Tenth Circuit on the one hand and the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits on the other”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Owens v. Okure
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.