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← 705 A.2d 577 - Brittingham v. State

Brittingham v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
3
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

2 district · 28 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Hill v. United States · United States v. Mazak · Bailey v. State · Hughes v. State · United States v. Pavlico

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. “[t]he ‘law of the case’ doctrine ... bars relitigation [of the issue in question] where that issue has been previously decided by this Court .... [the doctrine] is flexible (unlike res judicata ...). It will not be enforced where doing so would produce an injustice. But it does apply ... unless some reason is shown for not applying it .... 38”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.