Soler v. Waite’s Empirical Analysis
989 F.2d 251 · 1993
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Weeks v. Samsung Heavy Industries Co. (1997), Jones v. Phipps (1994)
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Batson v. Kentucky · Hernandez v. New York · Powers v. Ohio · Alexander v. United States · McKesson Corp. v. Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'reach the merits of the underlying judgment.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“simply means that we shall not second-guess the decision of a trial judge that is in conformity with established legal principles and, in terms of its application of those principles to the facts of the case, is within the range of options from which one could expect a reasonable trial judge to select.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The appellant bears the burden of proving the abuse of discretion.”
2 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.