Dsc Communications Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Energy Capital Corp. v. United States (2002), Felder v. Johnson (2000)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo · Brewster v. Derwinski · Dennis v. Dennis · In re Geschke
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] party who fails to raise an issue in its initial brief waives the right to review of that issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e are unwilling to ignore [an] important clarification of the law, and perpetuate incorrect law, merely because [a controlling case] was decided after briefing and oral argument in this case”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he requirement of `reasonable certainty' in the proof of lost profits is intended to be flexible enough to accommodate the myriad circumstances in which claims for lost profits arise. . .[w]hether in a given case they should be so classified depends altogether upon the facts and circumstances of that particular case”
1 later decision 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.