Farmer v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
782 F.2d 780 · 1986
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2005
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 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 Wilson v. Garcia · Wycoff v. Menke
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to revive an action that the defendants once reasonably believed was barred.” Farmer, 782 F.2d at 781 . Finding that “the reliance interest asserted by the defendants here is ... weaker than that asserted by the plaintiff in Wycoff ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Wycoff opinion fully analyzes the factors relevant to the question of retroactivity.”
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.