Humphreys’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 23 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Parnes, Dulany v. Carnahan (1997)
20 federal appellate · 23 district · 4 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 Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Bullock v. United States · Freeman v. Continental Gin Co. · Littlefield v. City of Afton · Willmar Poultry Co. v. Morton-Norwich Products, Inc.
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a district court does not abuse its discretion in refusing to allow amendment of pleadings to change the theory of a case if the amendment is offered after summary judgment has been granted against the party, and no valid reason is shown for the failure to present the new theory at an earlier time.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“different considerations apply to motions filed after dismissal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ari Parnes Deborah Slyne Corey Emert Faye Martin Anderson Edward R. Pepper, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. Gateway 2000, Inc. Theodore W. Waitt Richard D. Snyder James Cravens George H. Krauss Douglas L. Lacey Norman W. Waitt, Jr., Faye Martin Anderson, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Gateway 2000, Inc. Theodore W. Waitt Richard D. Snyder James Cravens George H. Krauss Douglas L. Lacey · Parnes“may amend the party's pleading only by leave of court ... and leave shall be freely given when justice so requires.”
2 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.