Merker v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
649 F.2d 171 · 1981
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Enron Oil Corp. v. Diakuhara (1993), Romandette v. Weetabix Co. (1986)
27 federal appellate ·
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 First National Bank in Plant City v. Dickinson · Chira v. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. · Zavala Santiago v. Gonzalez Rivera · Edward Davis v. United Fruit Company, Defendant-Respondent · Davis v. Operation Amigo, 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“strik[e] the balance between alleviating court calendar congestion and protecting a party's right to due process and a fair chance to be heard....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Chira v. Lockheed Aircraft Corp., 634 F.2d 664 , 668 (2d Cir.1980), when the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Colon v. Mack
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.