Whitt v. Stephens County’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.3d 278 · 2008
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably 688 F. Supp. 2d 598 - Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc. v. Cammarata (2010), Oreck Direct, LLC v. Dyson, Inc. (2009)
5 federal appellate ·
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · City of Canton v. Harris · Byrnie v. Town of Cromwell · Kronisch v. United States · Hare v. City of Corinth, Miss.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the spoliation doctrine, a jury may draw an adverse inference 'that a party who intentionally destroys important evidence in bad faith did so because the contents of those documents were unfavorable to that party.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although [the Court draws] all justifiable inferences in the light most favorable to the non-moving party, the non-movant must present sufficient evidence on which a jury could find in his favor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an amendment to substitute a named party for a John Doe does not relate back under Rule 15(c).”
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.