Cox v. Treadway’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.3d 230 · 1996
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Frost (1997), Singletary v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (2001)
41 federal appellate · 12 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
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Schiavone v. Fortune · Tome v. United States · Barefoot v. Estelle · Hiatt v. Indiana State Student Assistance Commission
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sixth Circuit precedent clearly holds that new parties may not be added after the statute of limitations has run, and that such amendments do not satisfy the 'mistaken identity' requirement of Rule 15(c)(3)(B).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A refusal to give a requested jury instruction is reversible error only if three conditions are satisfied. First, the omitted instruction must be a correct statement of the law. Second, the instruction must not be substantially covered by other delivered charges. Third, the failure to give the instruction must impair the requesting party’s theory of the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]ubstituting a named defendant for a 'John Doe' defendant is considered a change in parties, not a mere substitution of parties.”
2 later decisions 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.