Curran v. Kwon’s Empirical Analysis
153 F.3d 481 · 1998
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Johnson v. Zema Systems Corp. (1999), Murphy v. Missouri Department of Corrections (2004)
14 federal appellate · 2 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Messenger v. Anderson · Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. United States · Bagley v. IBP, Inc.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[L]aw of the case,’ as applied to the effect of previous orders on the later action of the court rendering them in the same case, merely expresses the practice of courts generally to refuse to reopen what has been decided, not a limit to their power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a condition where one is induced by a wrongful act or threat of another to make a contract under circumstances which deprive him of the exercise of his free will”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“) (1983); Messinger v. Anderson, 225 U.S. 436, 444 , 32 S.Ct. 739 , 56 L.Ed. 1152 (1912) (Holmes, J.) (”
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.