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Nettles v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis

656 F.2d 986 · 1981

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
May 1994
most recently cited

12 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Bailey · United States v. Walters · 336 So. 2d 586 - Filmon v. State · John B. Hull, Inc. v. Waterbury Petroleum Products, Inc. · United States v. Lewis

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

  1. “portions of the report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which objection is made”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “by the judge, such a determination need only be made as to the”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “We read Lewis to mean that where a party does not object to a recommendation contained in a magistrate’s report within the time allowed, and the recommendation is accepted by the district court, the party will be held to have waived the right to appeal that ruling. This is true even where the ruling is only implicitly reflected in the judgment.”
    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.