Smith v. Holder

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the clear error standard is “a very exacting standard” which contemplates only those mistakes that are “dead wrong” (first quoting Bond v. U.S. Dep’t of Just., 286 F.R.D. 16, 22 (D.D.C. 2012
• “[T]o be clearly erroneous, a decision must strike [a court] as more than just maybe or probably wrong; it must . . . strike [the court] as wrong with the force of a five-week-old, unrefrigerated dead fish.’” (quoting Parts & Elec. Motors, 866 F.2d at 233

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  District of Columbia· 2017-03-23· cited 3×
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  District of Columbia· 2016-12-13
• United States v. Villongco
  District of Columbia· 2017-06-13
• Easaw v. Newport
  District of Columbia· 2018-10-15
• United States v. Burwell
  District of Columbia· 2021-06-10
• Black v. Guzman
  District of Columbia· 2023-04-24
• Feloni v. Mayorkas
  District of Columbia· 2023-05-01
• Pfeiffer v. United States Department of Energy
  District of Columbia· 2023-07-07
• United States v. Malone
  District of Columbia· 2023-09-08
• Bergdahl v. United States
  District of Columbia· 2024-05-23
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  District of Columbia· 2024-08-30

Cites

45 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-14· cited 38,518×
• Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-12· cited 12,455×
• Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-22· cited 7,269×
• National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-10· cited 6,600×
• Tolan v. Cotton
  Supreme Court· 2014-05-05· cited 4,257×
• Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. v. California State Council of Carpenters
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-22· cited 3,116×
• Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker
  Supreme Court· 2008-06-25· cited 1,413×
• Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 2002-01-08· cited 1,389×
• Myrna O'Dell Firestone v. Leonard K. Firestone
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-02-16· cited 1,378×
• Hutchinson v. Staton
  Fourth Circuit· 1993-05-24· cited 500×
• Magloire Etoh v. Fannie Mae
  D.C. Circuit· 2013-04-05· cited 286×
• Henry W. Segar v. William French Smith, Attorney General, Henry W. Segar, Cross-Appellants v. William French Smith, Attorney General
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-06-26· cited 275×
• Sarah Kattan, by Her Parents and Next Friends Susan J. Thomas and Joseph Kattan, and Cross-Appellants v. District of Columbia, and Cross-Appellees
  D.C. Circuit· 1993-10-06· cited 272×
• Anyanwutaku, K. v. Moore, Margaret
  D.C. Circuit· 1998-07-24· cited 224×
• United States of America, Ex Rel. Martin Becker v. Westinghouse Savannah River Company
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-09-27· cited 223×
• Greer v. Paulson
  D.C. Circuit· 2007-11-02· cited 222×
• Gleklen v. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 2000-01-11· cited 215×
• Parts and Electric Motors, Inc., an Illinois Corporation v. Sterling Electric, Inc., a Delaware Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1989-03-09· cited 178×
• Messina, Karyn v. Krakower, Daniel
  D.C. Circuit· 2006-03-07· cited 171×
• Rhonda Baird v. Joshua Gotbaum
  D.C. Circuit· 2015-07-07· cited 170×