Jaffe v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
793 F.2d 1182 · 1986
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably McWhorter v. City of Birmingham (1990), Anderson v. Sheppard (1988)
8 federal appellate · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on United States v. Grinnell Corp. · United States v. Kordel · United States v. Phillips · Parsons Steel, Inc. v. First Alabama Bank · Malone v. Meres
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However severe the sanctions though, we will not interfere unless important historical findings are clearly erroneous or — by the imposition of sanctions which are not just — there has been an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Factual knowledge gained during earlier participation in judicial proceedings involving the same party is not sufficient to require a judge's recusal.”
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.