Mesa v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
61 F.3d 20 · 1995
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably University of South Alabama v. American Tobacco Co. (1999), Grayson v. K Mart Corp. (1996)
15 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Jetco Electronic Industries, Inc. v. Gardiner · Fassett v. Delta Kappa Epsilon
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jetco allows an exception to the finality rule when 'a series of court orders, considered together, terminate[d] the litigation as effectively as a formal order.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ecause plaintiffs never sought or received a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b) certification and, thus, never received a final decision, plaintiffs had nothing to appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]esolution of this appeal is controlled by Ryan v. Occidental Petroleum Corp., 577 F.2d 298 (5th Cir.1978).”
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.