Anthony F. McDonald v. Frank A. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
579 F.2d 120 · 1978
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Correa-Martinez v. Arrillaga-Belendez (1990), Dartmouth Review v. Dartmouth College (1989)
16 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 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 Texas v. Louisiana · Sweet v. South Carolina Department of Corrections · William L. O'Brien v. Robert J. Digrazia · McLellan v. Mississippi Power & Light Co. · Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] party may amend the party's pleading once as a matter of course at any time before a responsive pleading is served.... Otherwise a party may amend the party's pleading only by leave of court or by written consent of the adverse party; and leave shall be freely given when justice so requires.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(6) Failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted....””
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.