Duran v. Elrod’s Empirical Analysis
713 F.2d 292 · 1983
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Roland Machinery Company v. Dresser Industries Inc (1984), Lawson Products, Inc. v. Avnet, Inc. (1986)
32 federal appellate · 4 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 Conley v. Gibson · Foman v. Davis · United States v. Swift & Co. · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Florida v. Royer
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no reasonable person could take the view adopted by the trial court. If reasonable persons could differ, no abuse of discretion can be found.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Entry” has a well defined meaning under the rules; it occurs only when the essentials of a judgment or order are set forth in a written document separate from the court’s opinion or memorandum and when the substance of this separate document is reflected in an appropriate notation on the docket sheet assigned to the action____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rule is now well settled that a mistake in designating the judgment or in designating the part appealed from if only a part is designated should not result in loss of the appeal as long as the intent to appeal from a specific judgment can be fairly inferred from the notice and the appellee is not misled by the mistake.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brookens v. White
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.