De Luna v. Farris’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 312 · 1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2006
11 federal appellate · 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Arizona legislature amended § 12-502 on August 3, 1984, changing the limitation period. Arizona has provided what the result will be if a statute has the effect of changing an existing limitation. Under § 12-505(B), “[i]f an action is not barred by preexisting law, the time fixed in an amendment of such law shall govern the limitation of the action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zuck v. State“[i]t is well established that federal courts must apply not only the appropriate state statute of limitations, but also the applicable state rule for tolling that statute of limitations for actions brought under Sec. 1983.”
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.