Lyons v. Goodson’s Empirical Analysis
787 F.2d 411 · 1986
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Meade v. Grubbs (1988), Mondy v. Secretary of the Army (1988)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 · Loya v. Desert Sands Unified School District · Mohler v. Miller · Jackson v. Duke
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The real question in this case, however, is whether a complaint can be deemed “filed” when it does not comply with formal requirements in local rules. We concur with the position of the Ninth Circuit that a local rule should not be “elevate [d] to the status of a jurisdictional requirement” or “applied in a manner that defeats altogether a litigant’s right to access to the court.” Loya v. Desert Sands Unified School District, 721 F.2d 279, 280 (9th Cir. 1983).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weaver v. State
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.