White v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.3d 374 · 1994
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably In Re City of Memphis (2002), 71 F. Supp. 2d 139 - National Asbestos Workers Medical Fund v. Philip Morris, Inc. (1999)
9 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 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. § 1292
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Landry · Searle v. Simon · National Labor Relations Board v. Plasterers' Local Union No. 79
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) refusal would result in wasted litigation and expense; (2) the appeal involves a controlling question of law as to which there is a substantial basis for difference of opinion; and (3) an immediate appeal may materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is a substantial ground for difference of opinion which supports a certificate for an interlocutory appeal if a trial court rules in a manner which appears contrary to the rulings of all courts of appeals which have reached the issue, if the circuits are in dispute on the question and the court of appeals of the circuit has not spoken on the point, if complicated questions arise under foreign law, or if novel and difficult questions of first impression are presented.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When litigation will be conducted in substantially the same manner regardless of [the court's] decision, the appeal cannot be said to materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation.”
2 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.