Alerte v. McGinnis’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.2d 69 · 1990
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co. · Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co. · United States v. Indrelunas · Acosta v. Louisiana Department of Health and Human Resources
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the graveyard of an inordinate number of appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not worth the paper it is written on.”
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.