Thomas v. Bible’s Empirical Analysis
983 F.2d 152 · 1993
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 18 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Jeffries v. Wood (1997), United States v. Alexander (1997)
39 federal appellate · 18 district · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Hughes v. Rowe · Michel v. United States
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a manifest injustice would otherwise result.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an issue that has already been decided by the same court, or a higher court in the identical case.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]ne panel of an appellate court will not as a general rule reconsider questions which another panel has decided on a prior appeal in the same case.”
4 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.