Doe v. McMillan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• denying motion for leave to amend complaint 38 months after the filing of the initial complaint
• affirming district court’s decision to deny the plaintiffs motion to amend the complaint because the motion was filed more than three years after the commencement of litigation
• affirming denial of motion to amend when 38 months had passed after a “complaint had been before the district court, this court and the Supreme Court”
• affirming denial of leave to amend after three years of delay
• “[A]ppellants gave no indication before that Court of any potential change in their theory of the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

60 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Naartex Consulting Corporation, Russell Huff v. James G. Watt, Secretary of Interior
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-11-29· cited 490×
• Richard Atchinson v. District of Columbia
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-01-19· cited 478×
• Williamsburg Wax Museum, Inc. v. Historic Figures, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-01-27· cited 165×
• Briggs v. Goodwin
  D.C. Circuit· 1977-09-21· cited 153×
• Expeditions Unlimited Aquatic Enterprises, Inc., a Corporation, Norman Scott v. Smithsonian Institution
  D.C. Circuit· 1977-09-16· cited 117×
• Te-Moak Bands of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada v. The United States
  Federal Circuit· 1991-12-19· cited 64×
• Bode & Grenier, LLP v. Carroll Knight
  D.C. Circuit· 2015-10-23· cited 40×
• United States ex rel. Westrick v. Second Chance Body Armor, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 2013-12-30· cited 36×
• Hilliard v. Jacobs
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-05-18· cited 35×
• Alley v. Resolution Trust Corp.
  D.C. Circuit· 1993-01-26· cited 33×
• Dove v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
  District of Columbia· 2004-03-30· cited 32×
• Ronald R. Hutchinson v. William Proxmire and Morton Schwartz
  Seventh Circuit· 1978-07-26· cited 27×
• Hoffmann v. United States
  District of Columbia· 2003-05-30· cited 27×
• In Re Ungar
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1987-02-27· cited 26×
• Green v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 1986-11-12· cited 26×
• Gilliard v. Martin Gruenberg, Chairman, Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp.
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-03-26· cited 26×
• Klint L. Mowrer v. DOT
  D.C. Circuit· 2021-09-24· cited 25×
• Belizan v. Hershon
  D.C. Circuit· 2007-07-27· cited 23×
• Commodore-Mensah v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2012-02-01· cited 21×
• W. Douglas Williams v. Honorable Jack Brooks
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-10-31· cited 20×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Foman v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1962-12-03· cited 17,205×
• Scheuer v. Rhodes
  Supreme Court· 1974-04-17· cited 13,385×
• Paul v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1976-05-19· cited 4,836×
• Pierson v. Ray
  Supreme Court· 1967-04-11· cited 4,282×
• United States v. Testan
  Supreme Court· 1976-05-03· cited 3,918×
• Wood v. Strickland
  Supreme Court· 1975-04-14· cited 2,195×
• Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1961-04-03· cited 1,996×
• Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1971-04-05· cited 1,972×
• United Mine Workers v. Pennington
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 1,808×
• California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited
  Supreme Court· 1972-01-13· cited 1,621×
• Barr v. Matteo
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-29· cited 1,312×
• Gravel v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 778×
• United States v. Brewster
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 538×
• Doe v. McMillan
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 479×
• Webster Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
  Second Circuit· 1972-03-08· cited 324×
• Martha Lyons v. Board of Education of Charleston Reorganized School District No. 1 of Mississippi County, Missouri
  Eighth Circuit· 1975-09-03· cited 143×
• Apton v. Wilson
  D.C. Circuit· 1974-08-16· cited 134×
• Spomer v. Littleton
  Supreme Court· 1974-01-15· cited 90×
• Earl E. Komie v. Buehler Corporation, an Indiana Corporation, Buehler Corporation and James Bechtel
  Ninth Circuit· 1971-11-10· cited 46×
• John Doe v. John L. McMillan
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-06-26· cited 32×