Browning v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
869 F.2d 989 · 1989
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 166 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Emmons v. McLaughlin (1989), LRL Properties v. Portage Metro Housing Authority (1995)
78 federal appellate · 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 Monroe v. Pape · Wilson v. Garcia · Owens v. Okure · Porzig v. Nolden · Meade v. Grubbs
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 166 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the appropriate statute of limitations for 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights actions arising in Ohio is contained in Ohio Rev.Code Ann. § 2305.10, which requires that actions for bodily injury be filed within two years after their accrual.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blackwell, Inc. v. Fisher · Banks“unanimously held that when a state, like Ohio, has multiple statutes of limitation for personal injury actions, the appropriate state statute of limitations to borrow for claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is the residual or general personal injury statute of limitations,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Banks“we hold that the two-year limitations period; viz., Ohio Rev.Code Ann. § 2305.10, 2 is the appropriate statute of limitations for actions arising in Ohio under 42 U.S.C. S 1983.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murray v. Cramblett
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.