Byrd v. Reno’s Empirical Analysis
180 F.3d 298 · 1999
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Cobell v. Norton (2003), United States v. Philip Morris Inc. (2003)
19 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord
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.
“is reserved for extraordinary circumstances in which the petitioner demonstrates that his right to issuance of the writ is clear and indisputable and that no other adequate means to obtain relief exist.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a civil contempt order against a party in a pending proceeding is not appealable as a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 1291.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“because it [was] far from clear that the district court erred”
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.