Cason v. Owen’s Empirical Analysis
578 F.2d 572 · 1978
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2001
15 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
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Martin McNally v. The Pulitzer Publishing Company and Ted Gest · Tpo, Incorporated v. Hon. Thomas R. McMillen · Holton v. Crozer-Chester Medical Center · McCoy v. Louisiana State Board of Education
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a case involving multiple parties, dismissal of one party is not appealable absent a certification by the district court that complies with Rule 54(b), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.”
1 later decision 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.