Lewis v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
236 F.3d 766 · 2001
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Medina v. United States (2001), 349 F. Supp. 2d 1258 - Doe v. Liu Qi (2004)
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Farmer v. Brennan · Yohey v. Collins · Ulmer v. Chancellor · Black v. Lane · Gulf Coast Fans, Inc. v. Midwest Electronics Importers, 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.
“'incongruous' and 'unfair' to allow some defendants to prevail, while not providing the same benefit to similarly situated defendants.”) (citation omitted and emphasis added); Wilcox v. Raintree Inns of Am., Inc., 76 F.3d 394 , 1996 WL 48857, at (10th Cir.1996) (unpublished) (extending Frow to cases where multiple defendants have”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not entitled to a default judgment as a matter of right, even where the defendant is technically in default.” Lewis v. Lynn, 236 F.3d 766 , 767 (5th Cir.2001) (per curiam) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). We have noted that”
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.