Jackson v. Tennessee Valley Authority’s Empirical Analysis
595 F.2d 1120 · 1979
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 2002 · most notably Smith v. Hudson (1979), Gafford v. General Electric Co. (1993)
36 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Foman v. Davis · Allied Structural Steel Co. v. Spannaus · 15 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1413, 15 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 7909 Ramsey Alexander and Robert F. Newman, Raymond L. Dennis and Warner McCreary Plaintiffs-Intervenors v. Aero Lodge No. 735, International Association of MacHinists and Aerospace Workers, Afl-Cio, Ramsey Alexander and Robert F. Newman, Raymond L. Dennis and Warner McCreary Plaintiffs-Intervenors v. Avco Corp., Aerospace Structures Division
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'an appeal should not be dismissed because it was technically premature if in fact an appealable judgment or order was rendered below, the appellant clearly manifested his intent to appeal from it and the prevailing party below can show no prejudice resulting from the prematurity of the notice.'”
3 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.