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McKissick v. Yuen’s Empirical Analysis

618 F.3d 1177 · 2010

Citation profile

57
cited by 57 later decisions
June 2025
most recently cited

16 federal appellate · 5 district ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988

Relies on Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co. · Hertz Corp. v. Friend · Vitkus v. Beatrice Co. · Carmichael v. Beller

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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “fail[s] to explain in [his or] her opening appellate brief ... how they survive the plain[-]error standard,”
    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.