Wheeler v. City of Pleasant Grove’s Empirical Analysis
746 F.2d 1437 · 1984
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Litman v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance (1987), Bankers Trust Company Ss Edgar Queeny Sa v. Bethlehem Steel Corporation Bp Oil Inc Bankers Trust Company (1985)
64 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Quern v. Jordan · Arizona v. California
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“comprehends things decided by necessary implication as well as those decided explicitly.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) a subsequent trial produces substantially different evidence, (2) controlling authority has since made a contrary decision of law applicable to that issue, or (3) the prior decision was clearly erroneous and would work manifest injustice.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a district court is not free to deviate from the appellate court's mandate.”
2 later decisions 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.