Unicure, Inc. v. Thurman’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2006
2 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · State Teachers Retirement Board v. Fluor Corp. · Jerome Rosenberg v. Raymond v. Martin · Wood v. Worachek · Hernandez Jimenez v. Calero Toledo
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the primary consideration under rule 15(c) is whether the original pleading provides adequate notice, Unicure's assertion of the fifth, six, seventh and eighth causes of action against Nelson in the Amended Complaint will be permitted to relate back to the filing of the original Complaint only if the latter provided Nelson with adequate notice that the conduct and transactions set forth in said causes of action might provide a basis for imposing liability on him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Plaintiff] seeks to assert against a party already named as a defendant claims based on factual allegations which previously had not served as a basis for imposing liability against said defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the primary consideration under rule 15(c) is whether the original pleading provides adequate notice' of the claims Unicure brought against Nelson in the amended complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.