Aldabe v. Aldabe’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
152 federal appellate · 19 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 334 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Houston v. Lack (1988), Ryder Energy Distribution Corporation v. Merrill Lynch Commodities Inc Ef (1984)
152 federal appellate · 19 district · 5 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 Haines v. Kerner · Pierson v. Ray · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Stump v. Sparkman · Parissi v. Telechron, 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 334 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause an appellant has no control over delays between receipt and filing, a notice of appeal is timely filed if received by the district court within the applicable period specified in Rule 4.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim is made after the answer is filed, the court can treat the motion as one for judgment on the pleadings pursuant to F.R.Civ.P. 12(c).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no authority supporting the existence of a constitutional right to counsel”
2 later decisions 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.