Darr v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
767 F.2d 79 · 1985
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Grayson v. Mayview State Hospital (2002), Rose 88-1634 v. Bartle a Reed W 88-1646 (1989)
13 federal appellate · 10 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 Pierson v. Ray · Dennis v. Sparks · Romano v. United States · Kauffman v. Moss · Rotolo v. Borough of Charleroi
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his court has consistently held that when an individual has filed a complaint under § 1983 which is dismissible for lack of factual specificity, he should be given a reasonable opportunity to cure the defect, if he can, by amendment of the complaint and that denial of an application for leave to amend under these circumstances is an abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“set forth with factual specificity the conduct of defendants alleged to have harmed the plaintiff.”
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.