Lavado v. Keohane’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 601 · 1993
Citation profile
90 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Goldfuss v. Davidson (1997), Tabron v. Grace (1993)
90 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish
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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The motion is granted when no material issue of fact exists and the party making the motion is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Appointment of counsel in a civil case ... is a privilege that is justified only by exceptional circumstances.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'all well-pleaded material allegations of the pleadings of the [non-movant] must be taken as true.'”
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.