Lang v. Lang’s Empirical Analysis
414 F.3d 1191 · 2005
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Johnson v. Riebesell (2009), ACC Bondholder Group v. Adelphia Communications Corp. (In Re Adelphia Communications Corp.) (2007)
7 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 158
Relies on Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership · Catlin v. United States · Hilton v. Braunskill · Kansas 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the likelihood that the party seeking the stay will prevail on the merits of the appeal; (2) the likelihood that the moving party will suffer irreparable injury unless the stay is granted; (3) whether granting the stay will result in substantial harm to the other parties to the appeal; and (4) the effect of granting the stay upon the public interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A request to extend the time for filing a notice of appeal must be made by written motion filed before the time for filing a notice of appeal has expired, except that such a motion filed not later than 20 days after the expiration of the time for filing a notice of appeal may be granted upon a showing of excusable neglect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Emann v. Latture“‘should be restricted to the questions properly raised by the post-judgment motion [and] should not extend to revive lost opportunities to appeal the underlying judgment.’”
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.