Robinson v. Parrish’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 1548 · 1983
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Litman v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance (1987), Wheeler v. City of Pleasant Grove (1984)
16 federal appellate ·
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 Schloendorff v. Society of the New York Hospital · White v. Murtha · Natanson v. Kline · Morrow v. Dillard · Wm. G. Roe & Co. v. Armour & Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would actually thwart the purpose of the [law of the case] doctrine”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is the rule under which the trial court and appellate courts are bound by any findings of fact or conclusions of law made by the appellate courts in a prior appeal of the case at issue.” Robinson v. Parrish, 720 F.2d 1548, 1549-50 (11th Cir. 1983) (internal quotation marks omitted). This rule does not apply here because there was no prior appeal. Further, the district court owes no”
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.