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576 F.2d 1340 · 1978
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Charles Laduke v. Alan C. Nelson, Etc. (1985), United States v. Stanert (1985)
25 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
Relies on Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · United States v. Swift & Co. · Hill v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 25 · System Federation No. 91 v. Wright · The State of Pennsylvania v. The Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company et al.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a prior judgment upon which it is based has been reversed or otherwise vacated”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the revision of the decree exacted by the district court in this case was consistent with the familiar distinction between the conclusive res judicata effect properly accorded decrees adjudicating accrued rights and those prospective features of a decree that involves the supervision of changing conduct or conditions and are thus provisional and tentative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was founded upon the express agreement of the parties as reflected in the Settlement Agreement; that relief simply holds plaintiff to its bargain and is hardly inconsistent with equitable principles.”
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.