Soltys v. Costello’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.3d 737 · 2008
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Thomas v. Cook County Sheriff's Department (2009), Alioto v. Town of Lisbon (2011)
23 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
Relies on Jd Marshall International Inc v. Redstart Inc Plc · Perrian v. E O'Grady · Doe Gs Ms v. Johnson T · Gonzalez v. Volvo Of America Corporation · Campania Management Company v. Rooks Pitts & Poust
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.
“liberal attitude towards the amendment of pleadings, courts in their sound discretion may deny a proposed amendment if the moving party has unduly delayed in filing the motion, if the opposing party would suffer undue prejudice, or if the pleading is futile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“repeatedly explained that improper comments during closing argument rarely rise to the level of reversible error.”
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.