98 F. Supp. 1015 - Passic v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2023
4 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1406
Relies on Ex parte Catanzaro · Arky v. Rosenberg · McCann v. Clark
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he law does not require, nor does justice demand, that a judge must grope through two thousand pages of irrational, prolix, and redundant pleadings ... in order to determine the grounds of petitioner's complaint”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The cross-bill of complaint and its various amendments appear to be prolix and muddled. Separate claims of the several cross-plaintiffs against the several defendants were jumbled in the single cross-bill. It was difficult for the District Judge to ascertain just what appellants’ claims were * * “In our judgment, the type of pleading resorted to here did not conform to Rule 8(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure which provides that a pleading ‘shall contain * * * (2) a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief * * *.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ach averment of a pleading shall be simple, concise, and direct.”
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.