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5 F.3d 186 · 1993

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
December 2019
most recently cited

19 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2019

19 federal appellate ·

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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 Shore v. Federal Express Corp. · Little Earth of United Tribes, Inc. v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development · Massachusetts Casualty Insurance v. Forman · Ford v. Nicks · Maney v. Brinkley Municipal Waterworks & Sewer Department

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The law of the case doctrine applies to issues implicitly decided in earlier stages of the same case.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “is to put an injured party in the same position the party would have occupied in the absence of the discrimination, neither more nor less.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “by failing to appeal that [1988] opinion.... ha[d] forfeited its rights to complain about the basics of that order at this time.”
    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.