Boughton v. Cotter Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
65 F.3d 823 · 1995
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 43 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Allison v. Citgo Petroleum Corp. (1998), Robin Zinser v. Accufix Research Institute, Inc. (2001)
44 federal appellate · 43 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 42 U.S.C. § 2210 (Radiation Exposure Compensation Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 9601 (§ 101 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Relies on Granito v. United States · Granito v. United States · Addington v. Texas · Murphy v. Sullivan · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the abuse of discretion standard, a trial court's decision will not be disturbed unless the appellate court has a definite and firm conviction that the lower court made a clear error of judgment or exceeded the bounds of permissible choice in the circumstances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“'consequences of alternative methods of resolving the issues.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. No means existed to obtain the desired information other than to depose opposing counsel; 2. The information sought was relevant and nonprivileged; 3. The information was crucial to preparation of the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.