Reich v. Dm Sabia Company’s Empirical Analysis
90 F.3d 854 · 1996
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Zervos v. Verizon New York, Inc. (2001), Institutional Investors Group v. Avaya, Inc. (2009)
44 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · Martin v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission · Smiley v. Citibank (South Dakota), N. A. · Voinovich v. Quilter
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[although a panel of this court is bound by, and lacks authority to overrule, a published decision of a prior panel, ... a panel may reevaluate a precedent in light of intervening authority” (internal cross-reference omitted)). 17 . The most compelling reason is that state and local governments, unlike private businesses, are responsible for”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he holding of a panel in a reported opinion is binding on subsequent panels. . . . Court in banc consideration is required [to overrule such a holding].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An existing panel decision may be undermined by controlling authority, subsequently announced . . . .”
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.