United States v. Sorren’s Empirical Analysis
605 F.2d 1211 · 1979
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. v. Mayacamas Corp. (1988), Fleet Data Processing Corp. v. Branch (In Re Bank of New England Corp.) (1998)
79 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Gerstein v. Pugh · Stone v. Powell · Abney v. United States · American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The order must involve: (1) an issue essentially unrelated to the merits of the main dispute, capable of review without disrupting the main trial; (2) a complete resolution of the issue, not one that is “unfinished” or “inconclusive”; (3) a right incapable of vindication on appeal from final judgment; and (4) an important and unsettled question of controlling law, not merely a question of the proper exercise of the trial court’s discretion.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mandamus is not, however, a substitute for interlocutory appeal for parties attacking the court's jurisdiction: it is appropriate only when the lower court is clearly without jurisdiction and the party seeking the writ has no adequate remedy by appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Invocation of our advisory mandamus power is not to be used as a bootstrap device to circumvent the limits on our jurisdiction to review discretionary interlocutory rulings of district judges.”
2 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.