Douglass v. United Services Automobile Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
79 F.3d 1415 · 1996
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 62 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 797 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Santiago v. Canon U.S.A., Inc. (1998), Olabisiomotosho v. City of Houston (1999)
96 federal appellate · 62 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · United States v. Olano · Thomas v. Arn · United States v. Young
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 797 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]onclusory allegations, speculation, and unsubstantiated assertions”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Within ten days of being served with a copy, any party may serve and file written objections to such proposed findings and recommendations as provided by rules of court. A judge of the court shall make a de novo determination of those portions of the report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which objection is made. A judge of the court may accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the findings or recommendations made by the magistrate.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“seriously affects the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.