Knox v. Cook County Sheriff's Police Department’s Empirical Analysis
866 F.2d 905 · 1988
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Kalimara v. Illinois Department of Corrections (1989), Elliott v. City of Union City (1994)
16 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 Wilson v. Garcia · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · Maclin v. Freake · Howland v. Kilquist · Anton v. Lehpamer
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.
“'where a plaintiff is imprisoned from the date of his arrest (at which time a deprivation of civil rights occurred), he may bring a Sec. 1983 action within two years after the disability [i.e., imprisonment] is removed.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is also well-settled that when a state's statute of limitations is borrowed, that state's tolling provisions are borrowed as well.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dortch v. Shine“While the statute of limitations is an affirmative defense, the burden of establishing an exception thereto is on plaintiff.”
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.