130 F. Supp. 2d 774 - Evans v. Mullins’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 2023
1 district ·
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))
Relies on Foman v. Davis · First National Bank of Boston v. X Bellotti · U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co. v. Bonner Mall Partnership · Izumi Seimitsu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha v. U. S. Philips Corp. · 37612 Memorial Hospital of Iowa County Inc United States Department of Health and Human Services
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a jury verdict alone has little or no precedential value, the integrity of all decisions in this court would be weakened by allowing unsuccessful parties to erase unfavorable legal outcomes.... The interests of litigants in general [ ] lie with the orderly operation of a sys tem of justice, one in which the conclusions of litigation are recorded and thus preserved for the future, one in which slightly higher costs in today’s case may reduce the trouble encountered by litigants and judges tomorrow.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Some litigants, at least, may think it ■worthwhile -to roll the dice rather than settle in the district court, or in the court of appeals, if, but only if, an unfavorable‘outcome can be washed away by a settlement-related vacatur. And the judicial economies achieved by settlement at the district-court level are ordinarily much more extensive than those achieved by settlement on appeal.”
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.