Hutchinson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 24 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Pacific Insurance Company v. American National Fire Insurance Company, Rail Link, Incorporated (1998), Munafo v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority (2004)
5 federal appellate · 24 district · 6 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 Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Hughes v. Rowe · Arnold v. Burger King Corp. · Atkins v. Marathon LeTourneau Co. · Introcaso v. Cunningham
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) to accommodate an intervening change in controlling law; (2) to account for new evidence not available at trial; or (3) to correct a clear error of law or prevent manifest injustice.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[M]ere disagreement does not support a Rule 59(e) motion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prevailing defendants should receive attorneys' fees only when the plaintiff's claim was'frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless,' or when 'the plaintiff continued to litigate after it clearly became so.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Beeton
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.