Glover v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 99 · 1987
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2005
13 federal appellate ·
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 Sullivan v. United States · Stover v. Rau · Lasater v. Waits · Tippett v. Brooks · United States v. Hylton
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]olling of limitations is grounded in equity, ... [and] one who would embrace equity must do so with clean hands.”
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.