Sims v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
743 F.2d 607 · 1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2015
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Loftin & Woodard, Inc. v. United States · Fenix v. Finch · United States v. 3,788.16 Acres of Land · Consolidated Grain and Barge Company v. Archway Fleeting & Harbor Service Inc · Kealy v. Harter
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stipulations of fact fairly entered into are controlling and conclusive . . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We see no suggestion of manifest injustice ... and ... cannot accept the suggestion that a stipulation may be disregarded whenever substantial evidence contradicting it were introduced. Indeed, if substantial evidence ... were all that was required to disregard it, the purpose of stipulations would be severely undercut. ... If a party could be relieved of a stipulation on a mere show ing of substantial contrary evidence, litigants could not rely on stipulations of fact and would have to he fully prepared to put on their proof.”
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.