Thomas v. Rhode Island’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.3d 944 · 2008
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 28 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Gargano v. Liberty International Underwriters, Inc. (2009), United Automobile, Aerospace, Agricultural Implement Workers v. Fortuño (2011)
6 federal appellate · 28 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 Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Conley v. Gibson · Erickson v. Pardus · Rodriguez v. Doral Mortgage Corp. · Iverson v. City of Boston
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ppellants cannot raise an argument on appeal that was not 'squarely and timely raised in the trial court.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“assume the truth of all well-pleaded facts and give the plaintiff the benefit of all reasonable inferences therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guilfoile v. Shields“litigants must spell out their legal theories face-up and squarely in the trial court”
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.