Donald v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 1191 · 1988
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably Green v. Bock Laundry MacHine Co. (1989), Kovacevich v. Kent State University (2000)
18 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Monroe v. Pape · Screws v. United States · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen considering a claimed error or omission in jury instructions,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 15(b) 'is designed to allow parties to a civil action to get to the heart of the matter and not have relevant issues obscured by pleading niceties. It was not designed to allow parties to change theories in mid-stream.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Creditors v. Lile“[s]ince all of the defendants were public officials and were admittedly acting under color of law, there was no need to assert a claim under section 1985(3)”
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.