Donovan v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2010
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Atlantic Trust Co. v. Chapman · Stuart v. Boulware · Rybicki v. State Bd. of Elections of State of Ill. · Providential Development Company, a Corporation, and W. C. Jackson v. United States Steel Company, a Corporation · Bowersock Mills & Power Co. v. Joyce
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 13(g) was intended to promote the expeditious and economical adjudication of an entire subject matter arising from the same set of facts within a single action”); Georgia Ports Authority, 119 F.R.D. at 695 (forcing additional independent actions to be filed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is up to the discretion of the court appointing the receiver as to who shall be charged with the costs of the receivership”
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.