Nelson v. Foti’s Empirical Analysis
707 F.2d 170 · 1983
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Day v. State (1989), Shipp v. General Motors Corp. (1985)
17 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 Nettles v. Wainwright · Sanchez v. Board of Regents of Texas Southern University · Boruff v. United States · In the Matter of T. C. Morrow, Bankrupt. Planters' Trust and Savings Bank of Opelousas, Louisiana, Appellant-Cross v. T. C. Morrow, Appellee-Cross No. 74-2267 Summary Calendar. Rule 18, 5 Cir. See Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Company of New York, 5 Cir., 1970, 431 F.2d 409, Part I · Ryals v. Estelle
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“F.R.A.P. 4(a) provides that an appeal from a final judgment must be filed within 30 days of entry of 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.