Leffler v. Meer’s Empirical Analysis
60 F.3d 369 · 1995
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2013
14 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Kentucky v. Graham · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · Farrar v. Hobby · Texas State Teachers Ass'n v. Garland Independent School District
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well-settled that district courts enjoy broad discretion in controlling discovery. A district court's exercise of discretion on discovery matters will only be reversed upon a showing of a clear abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would result in actual and substantial prejudice to the complaining litigant.”
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.