Dannenberg’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Denham v. City of New Carlisle (1999), Grand v. Nacchio (2006)
1 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 Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Carnegie v. United States · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord · Cobbledick v. United States · Flanagan v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We .., take a pragmatic approach to finality in situations where events subsequent to a nonfinal order fulfill the purposes of the final judgment rule. Specifically, “judgments whose finality would normally depend upon a Rule 54(b) certificate may be treated as final [and appealable under § 1291] if remaining claims subsequently have [] been finalized.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is axiomatic that orders granting partial summary judgment, because they do not dispose of all claims, are not final appealable orders under section 1291.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“judgments as to fewer than all claims or parties. Because the stipulation did not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Pickett
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.