Scarpa v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
782 F.2d 300 · 1986
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Lorenzen v. Employees Retirement Plan of the Sperry & Hutchinson Co. (1990), Pontarelli v. Stone (1991)
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 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 Foman v. Davis · Environmental Protection Agency v. Brown · Spound v. Mohasco Industries, Inc. · Oregon v. Champion International Corp.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... We regard the Oregon court’s statement that the phrase “good cause” is applicable only when the motion is filed before the time for filing the appeal has expired, 680 F.2d at 1310 , as an unwarranted maiming of the rule. Plaintiff mistook the ground for his motion. The rule expressly recognizes “good cause” as a basis for extension both before and after the expiration of the appeal time. There was no mistake by counsel, excusable or otherwise. Rather, there was inexcusable neglect by the Post Office to take more than five days... to transmit an adequately addressed letter three miles, and no basis for charging counsel for failing to think that more might be needed. The court should have given the motion a practical meaning, cf. Foman v. Davis, 371 U.S. 178 , 83 S.Ct. 227 , 9 L.Ed.2d 222 (1962), as including “good cause,” and should have found such.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“tak[ing] more than five days ... to transmit an adequately addressed letter three miles”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.