Wright v. Deyton’s Empirical Analysis
757 F.2d 1253 · 1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2000
6 federal appellate · 1 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 Bonner v. City of Prichard · Fallen v. United States · Aldabe v. Aldabe · Sanchez v. Board of Regents of Texas Southern University · Stevens v. Heard
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he district court should determine when the document was mailed and whether, in ordinary course of events, the clerk would have received the letter by the applicable filing deadline.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ramseur v. Beyer
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.