In Re Peter M Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2006
1 district ·
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 Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · Will v. United States · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Schlagenhauf v. Holder · La Buy v. Howes Leather 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unlike the authority to reconsider its own rulings, a district court is without choice in obeying the mandate of the appellate court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although it is clear that the supervening law should be applied in the subsequent proceeding, such application is far from automatic. When a ... court has been expressly bound by an appellate court’s mandate to apply the superseded law, it is conventional for an appellate court to relieve the trial court of its obligation.”
1 later decision 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.