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653 F.2d 671 · 1981
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 14 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. R. Enterprises, Inc. (1991), Toussaint v. McCarthy (1986)
39 federal appellate · 14 district · 4 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 Messenger v. Anderson · Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. City of Burlington · Premium Service Corporation v. The Sperry & Hutchinson Company, George A. Scott · Don Marquis v. Chrysler Corporation, Don Marquis v. Chrysler Corporation and Chrysler Motors Corporation, Don Marquis v. Chrysler Corporation, Chrysler Motors Corporation and Chrysler Realty Corporation · Marshall v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have broad discretion in [their] resolution of discovery problems that arise in cases pending before [them].”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The transferee judge's authority to coordinate consolidated pretrial proceedings in multidistrict cases is the essential contribution of the multidistrict transfer procedure. That judge has the power to set aside pretrial rulings of transferor courts, and courts performing auxiliary roles must be guided by the transferee judge's rulings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since the litigation was in the district court solely for purposes of the discovery motion, the court's disposition of that motion [is] an appealable final judgment”
1 later decision 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.