Gillespie v. Civiletti’s Empirical Analysis
629 F.2d 637 · 1980
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 39 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 220 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Karim-Panahi v. Los Angeles Police Department (1988), Hobson v. Wilson (1984)
85 federal appellate · 39 district · 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 Conley v. Gibson · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Procunier v. Martinez
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 220 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s a general rule, the use of ‘John Doe’ to identify a defendant is not favored,”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an opportunity to amend (their) complaint(s) to overcome any deficiency unless 'it clearly appears ... that the deficiency cannot be overcome by amendment.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was denied medical and health needs ... and that he was a black prisoner”
2 later decisions 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.