Pike v. City of Mission’s Empirical Analysis
731 F.2d 655 · 1984
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Jacobs, Visconsi & Jacobs, Co. v. City of Lawrence (1991), Baker v. Board of Regents (1993)
30 federal appellate · 14 district ·
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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Hughes v. Rowe · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“damage[d] [the plaintiff's] reputation by 'representing to third persons and to the public that the fault claimed and defamatory statements made against [the p]laintiff were true.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A suit challenging a systematic policy is not barred even though the policy began before the limitations period, because the policy itself continues to violate employees' rights”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a concealment of facts that would prevent [plaintiff] from knowing a cause of action existed. 700 F.2d at 1301. Moreover, [plaintiffs] allegations must show that his ignorance was not the result of his lack of diligence, but was due to affirmative acts by defendants that would conceal the facts giving rise to the claim from a reasonably diligent plaintiff.”
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.