John Rezzonico Jacquelyn Rezzonico v. H & R Block Inc H & R Block Eastern Tax Services Inc Hrb Royalty Inc’s Empirical Analysis
182 F.3d 144 · 1999
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Alixcair Valverde v. James Stinson, Superintendent, Great Meadow Corr. Fac. (2000), SCS Communications, Inc. v. Herrick Co. (2004)
31 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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 Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Commissioner v. Sunnen · Arizona v. California · Agency Holding Corporation v. Malley-Duff & Associates Inc Crown Life Insurance Company · Osterneck v. Ernst & Whinney
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y its terms, Thompson applies only where a party has performed an act which, if properly done, would postpone the deadline for filing his appeal and has received specific assurance by a judicial officer that this act has been properly done.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As most commonly defined, the doctrine of law of the case posits that when a court decides upon a rule of law, that decision should generally continue to govern the same issues in subsequent stages in the same case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]tatements by a member of the clerk's office staff are not official judicial assurances that qualify as unique circumstances.”
2 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.