Thurston v. Box Elder County’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Archuleta v. Galetka (2011), IHC Health Services, Inc. v. D & K MANAGEMENT, INC. (2008)
4 federal appellate · 57 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 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Bibby v. United States · Soberon v. United States · Arizona v. California · Jones v. Howard · Messenger v. Anderson
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a decision made on an issue during one stage of a case is binding in successive stages of the same litigation.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“dictates that pronouncements of an appellate court on legal issues in a case become the law of the case and must be followed in subsequent proceedings of that case.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) when there has been an intervening change of controlling authority; (2) when new evidence has become available; or (8) when the court is convinced that its prior decision was clearly erroneous and would work a manifest injustice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.