Savola v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
644 F.2d 743 · 1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2004
4 federal appellate · 3 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 Shelton v. Tucker · Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers · Bates v. City of Little Rock · Pell v. Procunier · General Dynamics Corp. v. Selb Manufacturing Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“required to uphold the dismissal of their suit by the district court. 12 Despite the foregoing, we believe the district court erred in refusing to consider appellants' first amendment claim as to Interrogatories Nos. 8 and 9, one of which sought disclosure of party members (8) and the other of sympathizers (9). As a defendant preparing its defense, the position of the FBI is at first blush supported by Rule 33, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which provides in part that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Savola v. Webster“Parties may obtain discovery regarding any matter, not privileged, which is relevant to the subject matter involved in the pending action, * * * including * * * the identity and location of persons having knowledge of any discoverable matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Savola v. Webster“the interrogatories may relate to any matters which can be inquired into under Rule 26(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Savola v. Webster
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.