No. 91-3234’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably James Miller v. Larry Norris (2001), Tilson v. Forrest City Police Department (1994)
3 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Conley v. Gibson · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Neitzke v. Williams · Wilson v. Garcia · Dunn v. Blumstein
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Section] 1983 claims accruing within a particular state are to be governed by that state's general personalinjury statute of limitations, not by particular state statutes covering particular torts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not juridical entities suable as such. They are simply departments or subdivisions of the City government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as de facto amendments to the complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.