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104 F.3d 1133 · 1997

Citation profile

381
cited by 381 later decisions
4
states following
August 2025
most recently cited

106 federal appellate · 17 district · 7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 381 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Max Lopez Jr v. Ga Smith Larry Loo a Acevedo Patterson 4a-2r (2000), Ciralsky v. Central Intelligence Agency (2004)

106 federal appellate · 17 district · 7 state decisions

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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 McGuckin v. Smith · Shapiro v. UJB Financial Corp. · Otis v. City of Chicago · Jung v. K. & D. Mining Co.

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 381 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a plaintiff, who has been given leave to amend, may not file a notice of appeal simply because he does not choose to file an amended complaint. A further district court determination must be obtained.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Although the parties did not raise the question of our jurisdiction, we have raised it sua sponte, as we must.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “a further step must be taken to fix an unequivocal terminal date for appealability, and to avoid the hazards of confusion or misunderstanding as to the time for appeal”
    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.