Dison v. Whitley’s Empirical Analysis
20 F.3d 185 · 1994
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Freudensprung v. Offshore Technical Services, Inc. (2004), Emery v. Johnson (1997)
15 federal appellate ·
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 · Houston v. Lack · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Fallen v. United States · Legg v. United Markets International, 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A timely filed notice of appeal is a jurisdictional prerequisite to [appellate review].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review the district court's findings of fact for clear error.”
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.