Sligh v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 1169 · 1979
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2022
10 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Mitchell v. Maurer · National Mut Ins Co of District of Columbia v. Tidewater Transfer Co Inc
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.
“preliminary question of fact to be determined by the trial court”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palazzo v. Corio
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.