Kaylor v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
661 F.2d 1177 · 1981
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Cinel v. Connick (1994), Martin v. Sargent (1985)
30 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Younger v. Harris · Paul v. Davis · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Discovery should follow the filing of a well-pleaded complaint. It is not a device to enable a plaintiff to make a case when his complaint has failed to state a claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chudasama“no assurance that [plaintiff] could assert this free-speech claim as a defense to the crime ... with which she is charged”
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.