Patterson v. Crabb’s Empirical Analysis
904 F.2d 1179 · 1990
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Moran v. E.k. McDaniel (1996), Sargent v. Columbia Forest Products, Inc. (1996)
20 federal appellate · 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 Lorenzen v. Employees Retirement Plan of the Sperry & Hutchinson Co. · United States v. Torres · Zipfel v. Halliburton Co. · Patterson v. Portch · American Iron & Steel Institute v. Environmental Protection Agency
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he assertion of this power fills a gap in the appellate rules and is well within the traditional authority of the courts, properly described as inherent, to regulate procedures in them in the absence of legislatively prescribed rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Webb v. Choate“have asserted the power . . . to recall a mandate, in effect reopening the case, without limit of time, although only in exceptional circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Patterson v. Haskins“In fact, there was such an order; we had overlooked it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barrow v. Falck
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.