980 F. Supp. 28 - Arnold v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
24 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably District of Columbia v. Beretta, U.S.A., Corp. (2005), 238 F. Supp. 2d 212 - Jane Does I Through III v. District of Columbia (2002)
24 district · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Kentucky v. Graham · City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ll the Rules require is "a short and plain statement of the claim" that will give the defendant fair notice of what the plaintiff's claim is and the grounds upon which its rests.... Such simplified "notice pleading" is made possible by the liberal opportunity for discovery and the other pretrial procedures established by the Rules to disclose more precisely the basis of both claim and defense and to define more narrowly the disputed facts and issues. Following the simple guide of [Fed.R.Civ.P.] Rule 8(f) that "all pleadings shall be so construed as to do substantial justice," [14] we have no doubt that [plaintiffs'] complaint adequately set forth a claim and gave the [defendants] fair notice of its basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f, after discovery, the plaintiff still has not provided the names of the defendant... officers ..., the Court may make a determination at that time whether ... judgments should be granted in favor of the defendants”
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.