Sassoon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
549 F.2d 983 · 1977
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2021 · most notably Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis (1978), Hanson v. Town of Flower Mound (1982)
26 federal appellate · 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 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Foman v. Davis · United States v. Hayman · United States v. Indrelunas · Markham v. Holt · State National Bank of El Paso v. United States
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Subject to the provisions of Rule 54(b): (1) upon a general verdict of a jury, or upon a decision by the court that a party shall recover only a sum certain or costs or that all relief shall be denied, the clerk, unless the court otherwise orders, shall forthwith prepare, sign, and enter the judgment without awaiting any direction by the court; (2) upon a decision by the court granting other relief, or upon a special verdict or a general verdict accompanied by answers to interrogatories, the court shall promptly approve the form of the judgment, and the clerk shall thereupon enter it. Every judgment shall be set forth on a separate document. A judgment is effective only when so set forth and when entered as provided in Rule 79(a). Entry of the judgment shall not be delayed for the taxing of costs. Attorneys shall not submit forms of judgment except upon direction of the court, and these directions shall not be given as a matter of course.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be mechanically applied in order to avoid ... uncertainties as to the date on which a judgment is entered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Armstrong v. Ahitow
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.