Wycoff v. Menke’s Empirical Analysis
773 F.2d 983 · 1985
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Mulligan v. Hazard Et Al. (1986), National Union Fire Insurance v. Titan Energy, Inc. (1988)
64 federal appellate · 11 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Wilson v. Garcia · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Gooding v. United States · Garcia v. Wilson
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the decision must “establish a new principle of law”, either by “overruling clear past precedent on which litigants may have relied ... or by deciding an issue of first impression whose resolution was not clearly foreshadowed;” (2) the court must “weigh the merits and demerits in each case” by looking to the prior history of the rule in question, its purpose and effect, and whether retroactive application will promote or retard its operation; and (3) weighing the inequity imposed by retroactive application of the decision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, did the new principle under consideration overrule "clear past precedent on which litigants may have relied" or "decid[e] an issue of first impression whose resolution was not clearly foreshadowed,” second, in light of its "purpose and effect," will retroactive application of the rule in question "further or retard its operation,” third, could retroactive application of the principle in question "produce substantial inequitable results” in individual cases----”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Additionally, not only had no definitive standard been adopted by this court at the time Wycoff filed his complaint, but several cases involving the Southern District of Iowa specifically applied a two-year statute of limitations to section 1983 claims. These cases placed Wycoff on notice that a two-year limitations period might be applicable to his claim.”
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.