Klein’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably County Commissioners v. J. Roland Dashiell & Sons, Inc. (2000), Town of New Hartford v. Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (2009)
5 district · 13 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 Griffin v. United States · W.F. Development Corp. v. Office of the United States Trustee · Thornton v. Carter · Kegel v. Runnels · Dews v. Halliburton Industries, Inc.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law of the ease doctrine prevents relit-igation of a settled issue in a case and requires that courts follow decisions made in earlier proceedings to insure uniformity of decisions, protect the expectations of the parties and promote judicial economy. When a case has been decided by this court on appeal and remanded to the district court, every question which was before this court and disposed of by its decree is finally settled and determined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The [lower court] is bound by the decree and must carry it into execution according to the mandate.... It may not “al ter it, examine it except for purposes of execution, or give any further or other relief or review it for apparent error with respect to any question decided on appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.