Goney v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
749 F.2d 5 · 1984
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Howard v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1991), United States v. 2121 East 30th Street (1996)
16 federal appellate · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United States v. Raddatz · Universal Minerals, Inc. v. C. A. Hughes & Co. · Nettles v. Wainwright · United States v. Schronce
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“providing a complete de novo determination where only a general objection to the report is offered would undermine the efficiency the magistrate system was meant to contribute to the judicial process”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“plaintiff's objections lacked the specificity necessary to trigger de novo review”
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.