Cochran v. Birkel’s Empirical Analysis
651 F.2d 1219 · 1981
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Hoffman v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (1988), United States v. Holloway (1984)
60 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Curtis v. Loether · Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz · G. M. Leasing Corp. v. United States
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any party may demand a trial by jury of any issue triable of right by a jury by serving upon the other parties a demand therefor in writing at any time after the commencement of the action and not later than 10 days after the service of the last pleading directed to sucn issue. Such demand may be endorsed upon a pleading of the party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As a general rule the filing of a notice of appeal divests the district court of jurisdiction and transfers jurisdiction to the court of appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“this court has consistently held that a district court retains jurisdiction to proceed with matters that are in aid of the appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Alexander
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.