Pickle v. Zunamon’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Durfee v. Duke · State of Arkansas v. State of Tennessee · State of Missouri v. State of Nebraska State of Nebraska · International Harvester Co. v. Burks Motors, Inc. · Strain v. Gayden
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our court has long adhered to the rule that when a case has been decided by it, and after remand returned to it on a second appeal, nothing is before the court for adjudication except those proceedings had subsequent to -its mandate. Matters decided in the first appeal are the law of the case and govern the action of the trial court on remand and our action on a second appeal to that extent, even if we were now inclined to say that we were wrong in the earlier decision. This rule is based on the fundamental concept that judgments must at some point become final and departure from that rule would result in only uncertainty, confusion, and incalculable mischief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.