Senra v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.3d 168 · 1993
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Sykes v. Anderson (2010), Reed v. City of Chicago (1996)
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Mansell v. Mansell · Holder v. Hall · Dellums v. Powell · Wagenmann v. Adams
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.
“provides the district courts with a powerful mechanism to organize and expedite litigation. The pretrial conferences contemplated by the Rule create an indispensable opportunity to clarify and delimit issues to be tried and to establish a timetable for the proceedings as a whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'distortion and corruption of the process of law', such as 'falsification of evidence or some other egregious conduct resulting in a denial of a fair trial'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vogt v. Churchill
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.