Daly v. Sprague’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.2d 896 · 1984
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Eason v. Thaler (1996), United States v. Cherry (1985)
21 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Assn. · Barrett v. United States · Bigelow v. Virginia · Board of Ed., Island Trees Union Free School Dist. No. 26 v. Pico
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the `law of the case' doctrine is not an inexorable command, a decision of a legal issue or issues by an appellate court establishes the `law of the case' and must be followed in all subsequent proceedings in the same case ... unless ... the decision was clearly erroneous and would work a manifest injustice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i) the evidence on a subsequent trial was substantially different, (ii) controlling authority has since made a contrary decision of the law applicable to such issues, or (iii) the decision was clearly erroneous and would work a manifest injustice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We find that the District Court's granting of the defendant's motion for summary judgment was so inconsistent with the plaintiff's request for leave to amend as to implicitly deny his motion.”
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.