Alford v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Pennington (2002), In re T.R.P. (2006)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 58 state decisions
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 In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Surowitz v. Hilton Hotels Corp. · Auerbach v. Bennett · Boston Firefighters Union, Local 718 v. Boston Chapter · Venner v. Great Northern Railway 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nce [a] judgment [is] vacated, no part of it could thereafter be the law of the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the vigor with which [the parties] have litigated this case over the span of seven years[] and the massive amount of discovery conducted . . . indicat[e] that the purposes behind the verification rule have been met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re TRP“such ethical, commercial, promotional, public relations and fiscal factors as may be involved in a given situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. Sokolov
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.