Major v. Benton’s Empirical Analysis
647 F.2d 110 · 1981
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 61 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Mason v. Texaco, Inc. (1991), Daniels v. Twin Oaks Nursing Home (1982)
33 federal appellate · 61 district · 2 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Paul v. Davis · Baker v. McCollan · Screws v. United States · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a lower court is convinced that an interlocutory ruling it has made is substantially erroneous, the only sensible thing to do is to set itself right to avoid subsequent reversal.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a court enunciates a rule of law in the course of a given case, the law of the case doctrine generally requires the court to adhere to the rule throughout the pro-ceedings_ Courts have generally permitted a modification of the law of the case when substantially different, new evidence has been introduced, subsequent, contradictory controlling authority exists, or the original order is clearly erroneous.”
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.