Micklus v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
705 F.2d 314 · 1983
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Ciralsky v. Central Intelligence Agency (2004), Redfield v. Continental Casualty Corp. (1987)
24 federal appellate · 2 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))
Relies on Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Murzyn v. United States · Estelle v. Justice U S · Nevijel v. North Coast Life Insurance · Daniel Dewitt v. Officer R. F. Pail, Wesley M. Young, Assistant Superintendent, Southern Conservation Center
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]sually when a plaintiff's complaint is dismissed for failure to comply with Rule 8(a) [of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure], that dismissal is to be with leave to amend.”
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.