Limerick v. Greenwald’s Empirical Analysis
666 F.2d 733 · 1981
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Romero-Barcelo v. Hernandez-Agosto (1996), Ashley County v. Pfizer, Inc. (2009)
7 federal appellate · 9 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 · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Scheuer v. Rhodes · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Paul v. Davis
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the name-clearing proceeding must be run by the same actor who diminished the plaintiff['s] reputation[].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.