Tefft v. Seward’s Empirical Analysis
689 F.2d 637 · 1982
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Adams v. Gould Inc. (1984), Greenberg v. The Life Insurance Company of Virginia (1999)
44 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 · Foman v. Davis · Johnson v. Glick · Lee v. Texas · Shillingford v. Holmes
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to reinforce the principle that cases should be tried on their merits rather than on the technicalities of pleadings.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only by leave of court ... and leave shall be freely given when justice so requires.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is obvious that the facts as set forth in Tefft's original complaint would support a cause of action for a constitutional tort,....”
4 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.