Thompson v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
897 F.2d 356 · 1990
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 17 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Douglass v. United Services Automobile Ass'n (1996), Powell v. United States Bureau of Prisons (1991)
8 federal appellate · 17 district ·
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. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Thomas v. Arn · Nettles v. Wainwright · Nash v. Black · Branch v. Martin
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“objections must be ... specific to trigger de novo review by the [d]istrict [c]ourt of any portion of the magistrate's report and recommendation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“plaintiff has not waived his right to appeal by failing to object when the questions involved are questions of law or mixed questions of law and fact, or when neither the local district court rule nor the magistrate’s notice has clearly informed the plaintiff that failure to object to the magistrate’s report will result in waiver of the right to appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“failure to file timely objections may result in a waiver of the right to appeal questions of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Halpin v. Shalala
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.