Poole v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 1025 · 1987
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Dean v. Barber (1992), Jones v. Hamelman (1989)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 Price v. Johnston · Knighton v. Watkins · Holt v. Pitts · Mekdeci v. Merrell National Laboratories · Terry Ray Taylor v. M. M. (Hoot) Gibson
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“facts and legal issues [which] are so novel or complex as to require the assistance of a trained practitioner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“runs counter to the policy of the law favoring the disposition of cases on the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arrington v. Mathis“' Id. (quoting Holt v. Pitts , 619 F.2d 558 , 562 (6th Cir. 1980)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arrington v. Mathis
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.