Phelps v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
122 F.3d 1309 · 1997
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 88 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 241 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Bronson v. Swensen (2007), Gff Corporation v. Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc (1997)
65 federal appellate · 88 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from New Mexico District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Younger v. Harris · Allen v. McCurry · Allen v. Wright · Singleton v. Wulff
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 241 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial court's decision will not be disturbed unless the appellate court has a definite and firm conviction that the lower court made a clear error of judgment or exceeded the bounds of permissible choice in the circumstances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review a district court's ruling on a Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) motion under an abuse of discretion standard.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should be granted only to correct manifest errors of law or to present newly discovered evidence.”
5 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.