Wright v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
766 F.2d 841 · 1985
Citation profile
305 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,295 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Douglass v. United Services Automobile Ass'n (1996), Moore v. United States (1991)
305 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Cooper v. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond · Brewer v. United States · United States v. Walters
Cited together with Thomas v. Arn · United States v. Schronce · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H
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 1,295 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'fair warning of the possible consequences of the failure to object timely.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n order for an individual to be liable under Sec. 1983, it must be 'affirmatively shown that the official charged acted personally in the deprivation of the plaintiff's rights'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that a pro se litigant must receive fair notification of the consequences of failure to object to a magistrate judge’s report before such a procedural default will result in waiver of the right to appeal. The notice must be 'sufficiently understandable to one in appellant’s circumstances fairly to appraise him of what is required.’”
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.