Lee v. Crenshaw’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 380 · 1977
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2002
7 federal appellate · 2 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 Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · Stanley Manly Boys Clothes, Inc. v. Hickey · 8 Smith & H. 382 - Burns v. Peoples Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Ann Arbor Trust Co. v. North American Co. for Life & Health Insurance · Adams v. Carter County Memorial Hospital
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“within the meaning of any statute of limitations when it is filed. We held that failure of process to issue is not conclusive against application of the saving statute. We also noted the saving statute was designed to protect diligent suitors, those whose timely filed complaints put their defendants on notice that the complainants intend to assert their legal rights. We reconciled Rule 3's definition of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. Crenshaw“plaintiff's counsel acted affirmatively to short-circuit the issuance of process in order to avoid giving notice to defendants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. Crenshaw“this court must “make a considered ‘educated guess’ as to what decision the Supreme Court”
1 later decision 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.