Briddle v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
63 F.3d 364 · 1995
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Nichols v. Scott (1995), West v. Johnson (1996)
26 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on McCleskey v. Zant · Penry v. Lynaugh · Sawyer v. Whitley · Little v. Liquid Air Corp. · Conway v. Statesman Mortgage Co.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we have consistently upheld the denial of leave to amend where the party seeking to amend has not clearly established that he could not reasonably have raised the new matter prior to the trial court's merits ruling.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]uch of the value of summary judgment procedure in the cases in which it is appropriate . . . would be dissipated if a party were free to rely on one theory in an attempt to defeat a motion for summary judgment and then, should that theory prove unsound, come back long thereafter and fight on the basis of some other theory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no requirement that reasons be stated for the denial of a motion for reconsideration under Rule 59(e),”
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.