D1291 v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2022
2 federal appellate ·
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 Patterson v. United States · Mattox v. United States · Tanner v. United States · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · Cargill, Inc. v. Monfort of Colorado, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Rule 28] requires that the appellant’s argument contain the reasons he deserves the requested relief ‘with citation to the authorities, statutes and parts of the record relied on.' ” Weaver v. Puckett, 896 F.2d 126, 128 (5th Cir.1990)) (citations omitted); Yohey v. Collins, 985 F.2d 222, 225 (5th Cir.1993) (although entitled to a liberal construction of their briefs, pro se litigants”
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.