Saunders v. Nemati’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 22 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Crocker v. Piedmont Aviation, Inc. (1995), Margot Rendall-Speranza v. Edward A. Nassim (1997)
8 federal appellate · 22 district · 11 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Russell v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Phelps Dodge Corp. v. AFL-CIO Joint Negotiating Committee · Hobson v. Wilson · Miller v. Avirom
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“libel, slander, assault, battery, mayhem, wounding, malicious prosecution, false arrest or false imprisonment” is one year; whereas D.C.Code § 12-301(8) provides that an action”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“intertwined with any of the causes of action for which a period of limitation is specifically provided,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for which a limitation is not otherwise specially prescribed,”
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.