Meredith v. Oregon’s Empirical Analysis
321 F.3d 807 · 2003
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Kwai Fun Wong v. United States (2004), Pegasus Gold Corporation v. J (2005)
36 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Younger v. Harris · Abney v. United States · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he legal theories ... must either (a) be so intertwined that we must decide the pendent issue in order to review the claims properly raised on interlocutory appeal, or (b) resolution of the issue properly raised on interlocutory appeal necessarily resolves the pendent issue.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if appellate courts lack jurisdiction, they cannot review the merits of these properly appealed rulings.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“necessary to ensure meaningful review of”
4 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.