In Re Mayhew’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2012
12 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. § 157 · 28 U.S.C. § 158
Relies on Agostini v. Felton Chancellor Board of Education of the City of New York · Arizona v. California · DiLeo v. Ernst & Young · United States v. United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co. · Teamsters Chauffeurs Warehousemen and Helpers Union Local No v. Superline Transportation Company 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this Court is aware of no First Circuit case condemning the practice of deciding motions by reference to the arguments of the prevailing party, much less reversing a case on that basis.... Indeed, this practice is a common one which this Court itself follows from time to time. While, in a perfect world, every judicial ruling would be accompanied by a detailed opinion precisely explaining the basis of the ruling, the realities of crowded dockets and scarce resources require something short of perfection.”
1 later decision 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.