Altman v. Altman’s Empirical Analysis
653 F.2d 755 · 1981
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Universal Minerals, Inc. v. C. A. Hughes & Co. (1981), Walton v. Mental Health Ass'n (1999)
23 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
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Bullock v. United States · Rich v. United States · Scarano v. Central R. Co. of New Jersey
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Absent exceptional circumstances, an issue not raised in the district court will not be heard on appeal.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]or parties to preserve an argument for appeal, they must have raised the same argument in the District Court — merely raising an issue that encompasses the appellate argument is not enough.”). Furthermore, we do not believe that "manifest injustice would result from the failure to consider the new issue[s],”
3 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.