Cole Energy Development Company v. Ingersoll-Rand Company

How courts have described this case

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• noting that \explicit directives by that court to the lower court concerning proceedings on remand are not dicta\ even when the court refers to its directives as \useful comments\ or the like and judges are not free to ignore them
• “[E]xplicit rulings on issues that were before the higher court and explicit directives by that court to the lower court concerning proceedings on remand are not dicta.”
• law-of-the-case doctrine does not extend to dicta

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).