In Re Ronald Gary Watts’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably California Pro-Life Council, Inc. v. Getman (2003), 433 F. Supp. 2d 1110 - Burch v. Regents of the University of California (2006)
9 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 Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · Payne v. Tennessee · Chisom v. Roemer · Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absent convincing evidence that the California Supreme Court would reject the interpretation”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the absence of a pronouncement by the highest court of a state, the federal courts must follow the decision of the intermediate appellate courts of the state unless there is convincing evidence that the highest court of the state would decide differently.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is a bedrock principle of our court that the published decision of one three-judge panel binds every other panel, from that day forward. Put another way, one panel may not overrule another; the power to overrule is confided to the en banc court, and the en banc court alone. Panels may distinguish; they may question; they may deploy virtually any of the other verbs in the Shepard's vocabulary. But they may not overrule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re Konnoff
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.