Nial Ruth Cox v. A. M. Stanton, M.D.’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 47 · 1975
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 27 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Mahone v. Waddle (1977), Fernandez v. Chardon (1982)
72 federal appellate · 27 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Virginia Eastern District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Monroe v. Pape · Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson · Urie v. Thompson · City of Kenosha v. Bruno
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knows or has reason to know of the injury which is the basis of the action.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]hat 28 U.S.C. § 1331 sustains jurisdiction for a direct action under the fourteenth amendment against the municipality not subject to § 1983 suit. 529 F.2d at 50 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is the rule that the applicable 'provision limiting the time in which an action [under § 1983] must be brought, must be borrowed from the analogous state statute of limitations.'”
2 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.