Curlott v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
598 F.2d 1175 · 1979
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Baker v. Limber (1981), Kester v. Campbell (1981)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 5596 · 5 U.S.C. § 5941
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Goldberg v. Kelly · United States v. Testan · Catlin 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[p]iecemeal adjudication does not become appealable merely because [it is] cast in the form of a declaratory judgment.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““Courts of record within their respective jurisdictions shall have power to declare the rights, status, and other legal relations whether or not further relief is, or could be sought. No action or proceeding shall be dismissed or stayed for the sole reason that only declaratory relief has been sought. The declaratory may be either affirmative or negative in nature; and such declaration shall have the force and effect of a final judgment.”'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'the dominant rule in federal appellate practice.' " Curlott v. Campbell, 598 F.2d 1175 , 1179 (9th Cir. 1979), quoting DiBella v. United States, 369 U.S. 121 , 126, 82 S.Ct. 654, 657, 7 L.Ed.2d 614 (1962). The "final order”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.