Lundgren v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 600 · 1987
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Hafer v. Melo (1991), Melo v. Hafer (1990)
40 federal appellate · 2 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Kentucky v. Graham
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although captions provide helpful guidance to the court, they are not determinative as to the parties to the action or the court's jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“doubt[ed] that Florida law prohibit[ed] ... a trial court from waiting until the expiration of the six month period after notification, and then permitting plaintiff to file an amended complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“governs the procedural question of whether to wait six months and permit the filing of an amended complaint or to dismiss the original complaint.”
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.