Thomas v. Scully’s Empirical Analysis
943 F.2d 259 · 1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Wachtler v. County of Herkimer (1994), 86 Ohio App. 3d 279 - McGlone v. Grimshaw (1993)
11 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Neitzke v. Williams · Perez v. Ortiz
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has the power to dismiss a complaint sua sponte for failure to state a claim on which relief can be granted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The] court on its own initiative may note the inadequacy of the complaint and dismiss it for failure to state a claim as long as the procedure employed is fair.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whatever its merit, the complaint did state a claim on which relief could be granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shakur v. Selsky
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.