Colvin v. Keen’s Empirical Analysis
900 F.3d 63 · 2018
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Pearson v. Callahan · Connick v. Myers
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that [the doctrine of law of the case] is not a rule that bars courts from reconsidering prior rulings, but is rather 'a discretionary rule of practice [that] generally does not limit a court's power to reconsider an issue.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a court ... faces the question whether to depart from its own prior ruling, the court has wide discretion to make whichever decision it thinks preferable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“does not rigidly bind a court to its former decisions, but is only addressed to its good sense.”
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.