Rose v. Rinaldi’s Empirical Analysis
654 F.2d 546 · 1981
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2017
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Russell M. Smith v. John J. Cremins, Jr., John F. Mahon, Jr. · Shouse v. Pierce County · Clark v. Musick · 76 Wash. 2d 40 - Shew v. Coon Bay Loafers, Inc.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Inconsistency and confusion would result if the single cause of action created by Congress were fragmented in accordance with analogies drawn to rights created by state law and the several differing periods of limitation applicable to each state-created right were applied to the single federal cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficiently generous ... to preserve the remedial spirit of federal civil rights actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n action for . . . any other injury to the person or rights of another”
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.