First Commercial Trust Company Na v. Colt's Manufacturing Company Inc’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 1081 · 1996
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Ashley County v. Pfizer, Inc. (2009), Duffy v. Landberg (1998)
10 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 Neitzke v. Williams · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Salve Regina College v. Russell · Charchenko v. City of Stillwater
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sanctions are appropriate where an appeal challenges district court decisions that are unquestionably supported by the great weight of the evidence and wholly in conformance with applicable law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Horton v. Conklin
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.