Hall v. Central Intelligence Agency’s Empirical Analysis
437 F.3d 94 · 2006
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 25 district · 1 state decisions
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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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“freely granted when doing so will promote the economic and speedy disposition of the entire controversy between the parties, will not cause undue delay or trial inconvenience, and will not prejudice the rights of any of the other parties to the action,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he rule against deciding moot cases forbids federal courts from rendering advisory opinions or 'decid[ing] questions that cannot affect the rights of litigants in the case before them.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.