Rocky v. King’s Empirical Analysis
900 F.2d 864 · 1990
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Lusardi v. Xerox Corp. (1992), Cruz v. Farquharson (2001)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Bell v. Wolfish · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Gerstein v. Pugh · Sosna v. Iowa · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mootness doctrine requires that the controversy posed by the plaintiff's complaint be 'live' not only at the time the plaintiff files the complaint but also throughout the litigation process.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n action is moot where (1) the controversy is no longer live or (2) the parties lack a personal stake in its outcome”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[h]undreds of inmates . . . could file a claim identical to that filed by [the named plaintiff]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cruz v. Farquharson
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.