McGruder v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 1023 · 1979
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Howard v. King (1983), Ruiz v. Estelle (1982)
34 federal appellate · 2 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 Haines v. Kerner · Montanye v. Haymes · Ingraham v. Wright · Sostre v. McGinnis · James H. McLellan v. Mississippi Power & Light Company, International Brotherhood of Electricalworkers, Local 605 Electrical Workers
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] party may amend his pleadings once as a matter of course at any time before a responsive pleading is served....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an amendment to his complaint or an addition in the nature of an amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woodall v. Foti
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.