Melton v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
891 F.2d 1054 · 1989
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2023
7 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co. · United Families of America v. Kendrick · Andrijevic v. Kelleran · Riverbend Farms, Inc. v. Agricultural Labor Relations Board
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] motion to extend the time must be filed no later than 30 days after the expiration of the original appeal time, and that if the motion is timely filed the district court may act upon the motion at a later date, and may extend the time not in excess of 10 days measured from the date on which the order granting the motion is entered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the district court may, on a showing of good cause or excusable neglect, extend the 30-day period for up to 30 days from the original deadline or until 10 days after the date of entry of the order granting the motion, whichever is later, but may not extend it further.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If ... the motion to extend is not filed within subdivision (a)(5)'s grace period, the district court is without power to grant an extension.”
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.