Cave v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
84 F.3d 1350 · 1996
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2022
9 federal appellate · 2 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Johnson v. Zerbst · Rose v. Lundy · Hilton v. Braunskill · Lee v. Brown
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n appellate court should accord deference to a district court's construction of its own earlier orders, if that construction is reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court's interpretation of its own order is properly accorded deference on appeal when its interpretation is reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court is in the best position to interpret its own orders.”
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.