Dory v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
999 F.2d 679 · 1993
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Scotto v. Almenas (1998), Burns v. Morton (1998)
34 federal appellate · 8 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Imbler v. Pachtman · Wilson v. Garcia · Houston v. Lack · Briscoe v. W
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[W]hen the defendant fraudulently conceals the wrong, the time [to sue] does not begin running until the plaintiff discovers, or by the exercise of reasonable diligence should have discovered, the cause of action.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cover extra-judicial conspiracies between witnesses and the prosecutor to give false testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dory v. Ryan“turn[s] his complaint over to prison officials”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Abbas v. Dixon
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.