Dilly v. S. S. Kresge’s Empirical Analysis
606 F.2d 62 · 1979
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2016
10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Catlin v. United States · Mandolidis v. Elkins Industries, Inc. · Western Geophysical Co. of America, Inc. v. Bolt Associates, Inc.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A 'final decision' generally is one which ends the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing for the court to do but execute the judgment.”
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.