Dixie Sand and Gravel Company Inc v. Tennessee Valley Authority’s Empirical Analysis
631 F.2d 73 · 1980
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Moody v. Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling Co. (1990), Harrell v. Dixon Bay Transportation Co. (1983)
14 federal appellate · 1 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 Wansor v. George Hantscho Co. · Vernon M. Ellis v. Elliott L. Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he amended judgment did not rest on a new ground but on one of the two original grounds. Were we to hold that appellant's motion for reconsideration of the amended judgment terminated the running of the time for filing notice of appeal, a party aggrieved by a judgment resting on several grounds could extend the time for appeal virtually indefinitely by filing successive motions for reconsideration challenging each of the grounds seriatim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] motion to reconsider an order disposing of a [time tolling post-trial] motion of the kind enumerated in ... Rule 4(a)[ (4) ] does not again terminate the running of the time for appeal,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although this is not a case involving an amended judgment resting upon a new ground not involved in the original judgment, 6A Moore's Federal Practice p 59.13 suggests that the same result should obtain.”
1 later decision 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.