Liggins v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2014
5 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))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Michigan v. Summers · Lomar Wholesale Grocery, Inc. v. Dieter's Gourmet Foods, Inc. · Hegg v. United States
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Almost invariably, complaints using this format are met with motions to dismiss or for summary judgment____ It is left to the court to divine what discrete constitutional violations are in fact legitimate and proper ... as against each defendant. The court must and does ferret out and dismiss those alleged constitutional violations that patently cannot be maintained. The process is time consuming, fraught with frustrations for both the court and counsel, and disrupts the orderly processing of legitimate claims____ The time has come for practitioners in this district to prepare complaints alleging [constitutional] violations ... in a fashion that will identify the specific constitutional violations as against only culpable defendants. This court is no longer disposed to perform what should be the responsibility of diligent counsel in that regard.”
2 later decisions 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.