95 F. Supp. 3d 8 - Cayo v. Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Ocasio-Hernández v. Fortuño-Burset · Rogan v. Menino · Ruiz Rivera v. Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, LLC
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever the claim or defense asserted in the amended pleading arose out of the conduct, transaction, or occurrence set forth or attempted to be set forth in the original pleading, the amendment (including an amendment changing a party) relates back to the original pleading.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Abernathy v. Dewey“cements in place a one-way ratchet; less restrictive state relation-back rules will displace federal relation-back rules, but more restrictive state relation-back rules will not.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Salmon v. Lang“whether an honest mistake had been made in selecting the proper party”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Salmon v. Lang
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.