N/s Corporation v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.3d 1145 · 1997
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Williams v. Gerber Products Co. (2008), Bush v. Dictaphone Corp. (1998)
18 federal appellate · 2 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 Love v. Fire Insurance Exchange · Love v. United States · 34 Cal. App. 3d 858 - Merritt v. Reserve Insurance · Mitchel v. General Electric 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Judicial] resources are limited. In order to give fair consideration to those who call upon us for justice, we must insist that parties not clog the system by presenting us with a slubby mass of words rather than a true brief. Hence we have briefing rules.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'QUINN v. Baca · O'Brien v. M“[W]e would feel most uneasy if this were an otherwise meritorious appeal, which cried out for reversal of the district court's decisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen an appellant has approached our rules with such insouciance that we cannot overlook its heedlessness,”
1 later decision 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.