Barrow v. Falck’s Empirical Analysis
11 F.3d 729 · 1993
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (2005), Amado v. Microsoft Corp. (2008)
16 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Commissioner v. Sunnen · Farrar v. Hobby · City of Burlington v. Dague · Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Co. · Standard Oil Co of California v. United States
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellate mandate does not turn a district judge into a robot, mechanically carrying out orders that become inappropriate in light of subsequent factual discoveries or changes in the law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An argument bypassed by the litigants, and therefore not presented in the court of appeals, may not be resurrected on remand and used as a reason to disregard the court of appeals' decision.”
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.