Yost v. Stout’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.3d 1239 · 2010
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co. · Hannon v. Maschner · Wikol ex rel. Wikol v. Birmingham Public Schools Board of Education · Utah Women's Clinic, Inc. v. Leavitt
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the motion requests a substantive change in the district court's judgment or otherwise questions its substantive correctness, the motion is a Rule 59 motion, regardless of its label.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n determining whether a motion is brought under Rule 59, we look beyond the form of the motion to the substance of the relief requested.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the [time] period [specified in the appellate rules] is stated in days ... if the last day is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, the period continues to run until the end of the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.”). 4 . The City's motion for attorney's fees did not impact the time to appeal because the judge did not extend the time to appeal under Fed. R, Civ. P. 58. See Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(4)(A)(iii) (a timely-filed motion for attorney's fees under Fed. R. Civ. P. 54 extends the time to appeal only "if the district court extends the time to appeal under Rule 58”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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