Maddocks v. Ricker’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Goldston v. American Motors Corp. (1990), Brum v. Town of Dartmouth (1999)
2 district · 40 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Richardson-Merrell Inc. v. Koller Ex Rel. Koller · Morrison v. Olson · Hendrickson v. Sears · Klein v. Catalano · Borman v. Borman
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, there is no right to appeal from an interlocutory order unless a statute or rule authorizes it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“collateral to the underlying dispute in the case”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patel v. Martin
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.