No. 94-3574sd’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
16 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Columbia Insurance v. Seescandy.Com (1999), 948 F. Supp. 1107 - First American Corp. v. Al-Nahyan (1996)
16 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Estelle v. Gamble · Jeffress v. Brown
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n action may proceed against a party whose name is unknown if the complaint makes allegations specific enough to permit the identity of the party to be ascertained after reasonable discovery.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“must show more than negligence, more even than gross negligence, and mere disagreement with treatment decisions does not rise to the level of a constitutional violation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim that would entitle him to relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.