Tomlin v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
865 F.2d 209 · 1989
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Calderon v. United States District Court for the Central District of California (1998), Batts v. Tow-Motor Forklift Co. (1995)
28 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · Federal Power Commission v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. · Gometz v. United States · Phillips Chemical Co. v. Dumas Independent School District · Lubben v. Selective Service System Local Board No. 27
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“based on a prior judgment reversed or otherwise vacated--based in the sense of res judicata, or collateral estoppel, or somehow part of the same proceeding.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a prior judgment upon which [the judgment to be vacated] has been reversed or otherwise vacated”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] change in the applicable law after judgment has become final in all respects is not a sufficient basis for vacating a judgment.”
3 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.