Rivera-Gomez v. de Castro’s Empirical Analysis
843 F.2d 631 · 1988
Citation profile
114 federal appellate · 119 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 285 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Zannino (1990), Mack v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (1989)
114 federal appellate · 119 district · 5 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 Conley v. Gibson · Wilson v. Garcia · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Chardon v. Fernandez · Harris v. McRae
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 285 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[j]udges are not expected to be mindreaders,”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of her claim which would entitle her to relief.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The standard for evaluating a Rule 12(c) motion for judgment on the pleadings is essentially the same as that for deciding a Rule 12(b)(6) motion. `[T]he trial court must accept all of the nonmovant's well-pleaded factual averments as true, and draw all reasonable inferences in his favor.'”
7 later decisions 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.