Octagon Resources, Inc. v. Bonnett Resources Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
87 F.3d 406 · 1996
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Wilder v. Apfel (1998), Aerotech, Inc. v. Estes (1997)
17 federal appellate · 6 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Huebner v. United States · Gacy v. Page · Faish v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency · Sheets v. Salt Lake County
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.
““The law of the ease is a judicial doctrine designed to promote decisional finality. Once a court decides an issue, the doctrine comes into play to prevent the re-litigation of that issue in subsequent proceedings in the same case.” Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co. v. Watchman, 52 F.3d 1531 , 1536 n. 4 (10th Cir.1995). “The doctrine applies to issues previously decided, either explicitly or by necessary implication.” Guidry v. Sheet Metal Workers Int’l Ass’n, 10 F.3d 700, 705 (10th Cir.1993), reh’g on other grounds, 39 F.3d 1078 (10th Cir.1994) (en bane), cert. denied, 514 U.S. 1063 , 115 S.Ct. 1691 , 131 L.Ed.2d 556 (1995) (citation omitted).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In any civil action to recover ... for labor or services, unless otherwise provided by law or the contract which is the subject of the action, the prevailing party shall be allowed a reasonable attorney fee to be set by the court, to be taxed and collected as costs.”
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.