Lynn v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2017
14 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 Barrett v. United States · White v. Murtha · Lehrman v. Gulf Oil Corp. · O. B. Harper D-B-A Harper Electric Co. v. Killion · United States v. Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the “law of the case” principle which precludes reopening questions resolved by an earlier appeal in the same case.... The general rule is that “if the issues were decided, either expressly or by necessary implication, those determinations will be binding on remand and on a subsequent appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Baby Boy C.
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.