Leon v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
988 F.2d 303 · 1993
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 222 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Scotto v. Almenas (1998), Boddie v. Schnieder (1997)
23 federal appellate · 12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp.
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 222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'containing only conclüsoiy, vague, or general allegations of conspiracy to deprive a person of constitutional rights cannot withstand a motion to dismiss.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“allegations are unsupported by any specifics, and many of them are flatly contradicted by the evidence proffered by defendants”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anilao v. Spota · Barnes v. Harling“entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
3 later decisions 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.