Simmons v. Abruzzo’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 83 · 1995
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 23 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 190 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Ciralsky v. Central Intelligence Agency (2004), Robert Sims v. Christopher Artuz Philip Coombe Jr Cyril Coefield Sylvia Laguna Lorette Klein Donald Selsky (2000)
21 federal appellate · 23 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 · Haines v. Kerner · Link v. Wabash Railroad · City of Revere v. Massachusetts General Hospital · Mmahat v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The function of pleadings under the Federal Rules is to give fair notice of the claim asserted. Fair notice is that which will enable the adverse party to answer and prepare for trial, allow the application of res judicata, and identify the nature of the case so it may be assigned the proper form of trial.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] district court also has the power under Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(b) to dismiss a complaint for failure to comply with a court order, treating the non-compliance as a failure to prosecute.”
3 later decisions 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.