Cobell v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
7 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp. · Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc. · Firestone v. K Firestone · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Lockheed Martin Corp. · 109 F. Supp. 2d 27 - McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
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.
“District courts have broad discretion to grant or deny a motion for reconsideration. The court may invoke its discretion and deny such a motion unless it finds an intervening change in controlling law, the availability of new evidence, or the need to correct clear error or manifest injustice.”
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.