Angle v. Sky Chef, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.2d 492 · 1976
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Landes Construction Co. v. Royal Bank of Canada (1987), Underhill v. Royal (1985)
24 federal appellate ·
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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. · Davis v. Alaska · Rogers v. Loether · Davis v. United States · Rodriguez v. Lash
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no substantial injury will be occasioned to the opposing party, the refusal to allow the amendment might result in injustice to the movant, and the inconvenience to the court is slight.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a)bsent a showing of clear abuse of discretion by the district judge . . . the exercise of such discretion under Rule 16 (providing for amendment of pretrial orders) will not be disturbed on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacobson v. Rose“'one which could reasonably have been reached.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Underhill v. Royal
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.