Faile v. Upjohn Co.’s Empirical Analysis
988 F.2d 985 · 1993
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably Burns v. Morton (1998), Schroeder v. McDonald (1995)
41 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 Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Houston v. Lack · Sisson v. Ruby · Laughlin v. Internal Revenue Service
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a pro se prisoner alleges that he timely complied with a procedural deadline by submitting a document to prison authorities, the district court must either accept that allegation as correct or make a factual finding to the contrary upon a sufficient evidentiary showing by the opposing party.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n incarcerated pro se litigant completes 'service' under Fed.R.Civ.P. 5(b) upon submission to prison authorities for forwarding to the party to be served.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e see no reason to treat other civil 'filing' deadlines differently than the filing for a civil appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meehan v. Rees · Nigro v. Sullivan
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.