Ashby v. McKenna’s Empirical Analysis
331 F.3d 1148 · 2003
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Bixler v. Foster (2010), Wilson v. Astrue (2010)
14 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United States v. Sandoval · Townsend v. Holman Consulting Corp. · Reazin v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Kansas, Inc. · Scott v. Hern · Griess v. Colorado
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]ith respect to a matter committed to the district court's discretion, we cannot invoke an alternative basis to affirm unless we can say as a matter of law that it would have been an abuse of discretion for the trial court to rule otherwise.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An abuse of discretion occurs when the district court bases its ruling on an erroneous conclusion of law or relies on clearly erroneous fact findings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we cannot say the only legally permissible exercise of [§ 1404(a)] discretion would be to [transfer] the case, though it is not for us to gainsay that result either. Hence, we must allow the district court to exercise its discretion anew in light of the changed legal circumstances clarified by this opinion.”
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.