Hatch v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
854 F.2d 981 · 1988
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Shapiro v. UJB Financial Corp. (1992), Otis v. City of Chicago (1994)
19 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Coniston Corporation v. Village of Hoffman Estates · Ordower v. Feldman · Elfenbein v. Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. · Reytblatt v. Denton · Hickey v. Duffy
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a district court's dismissal leaves a plaintiff free to file an amended complaint, the dismissal is not considered a final appealable order.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[complaint] dismissed without prejudice to plaintiff's filing within 30 days an amended complaint limited to [a particular claim].”
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.