Whittle v. Wiseman’s Empirical Analysis
683 F.2d 1128 · 1982
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2007
8 federal appellate ·
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))
Relies on Clark v. Mann · Garmon v. Foust · Smithey v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. · Curtis v. United Transportation Union · Cummings v. Greif Bros. Cooperage Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f any action is commenced within the time ... prescribed ... and the plaintiff therein suffers a non-suit ... the plaintiff may commence a new action within (1) one year after the non-suit,”
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.