Trout v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 2414 · 31 U.S.C. § 1304 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Catlin v. United States · Library of Congress v. Shaw · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Califano v. Westcott
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“judgment pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b), and at the same time petitioned this court both for rehearing, suggesting rehearing en banc, and for a writ of mandamus. The district court denied the Rule 54(b) motion for the entry of final judgment, concluding that the interim award could not be accommodated by that Rule. Memorandum and Order, Trout v. Ball, No. 73-0055 (D.D.C. June 2, 1989). This court, however, granted the government's petition for rehearing in order”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“determines that no appeal shall be taken from [the] judgment or that no further review will be sought from a decision affirming the same....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to settle circuit law on the propriety of awarding interim, immediately payable attorney's fees against the government”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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