Palmer v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
17 F.3d 1490 · 1994
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 16 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably Crocker v. Piedmont Aviation, Inc. (1995), Anderson v. Zubieta (1999)
10 federal appellate · 16 district · 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. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · Williamsburg Wax Museum, Inc. v. Historic Figures, Inc. · Berger v. Iron Workers Reinforced Rodmen Local 201 · Shirley C. Shehadeh v. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a legal decision made at one stage of litigation, unchallenged in a subsequent appeal when the opportunity to do so existed, [governs] future stages of the same litigation, and the parties are deemed to have waived the right to challenge that decision at a later time.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] legal decision made at one stage of litigation, unchallenged in a subsequent appeal when the opportunity to do so existed, becomes the law of the case ... and the parties are deemed to have waived the right to challenge that decision at a later time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“failure to appeal on alternative grounds”
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.