Nagle v. Alspach’s Empirical Analysis
8 F.3d 141 · 1993
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Lie v. Ashcroft (2005), Sukwanputra v. Gonzales (2006)
34 federal appellate · 6 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 Andrijevic v. Kelleran · Kost v. Kozakiewicz · 111 S. Ct. 425 - Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc. · In re Golub · Ward v. Sentry Title Co.
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an issue is either not set forth in the statement of issues presented or not pursued in the argument section of the brief, the appellant has abandoned and waived that issue on appeal”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to compensate appellees who are forced to defend judgments awarded them in the trial court from appeals that are wholly without merit, and to preserve the appellate court calendar for cases worthy of consideration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The Rule 38] inquiry is an objective one, focusing 'on the merits of the appeal regardless of good or bad faith.'”
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.