Jefferson County v. Acker’s Empirical Analysis
210 F.3d 1317 · 2000
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2023
8 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Collins v. City of Harker Heights · Rodriguez De Quijas v. Shearson/American Express, Inc. · Agostini v. Felton Chancellor Board of Education of the City of New York · United States v. Will
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a precedent of this Court has direct application in a case, yet appears to rest on reasons rejected in some other line of decisions, the Court of Appeals should follow the case which directly controls, leaving to this Court, the prerogative of overruling its own decisions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here a Supreme Court decision that has not been overruled is squarely on point and therefore 'directly controls' the case at hand, we are to follow it even though convinced that the Court will overturn that decision the next time it addresses the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is ... a difference between following a precedent and extending a precedent.”
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.