Lovelace v. O'Hara’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 847 · 1993
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Atchinson v. District of Columbia (1996), Margot Rendall-Speranza v. Edward A. Nassim (1997)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Wells v. Brown · Hill v. Shelander · Kirk v. Cronvich · Collard v. Kentucky Board of Nursing
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prejudiced in maintaining a defense on the merits.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“clearly within the expressed and applied powers of his official capacity.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Shaner · Brown“had no reason to believe that he would be held personally liable or that his personal assets were at a stake”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Shaner · Brown
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.