Cotner v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
657 F.2d 1390 · 1981
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Cole v. Ruidoso Municipal Schools (1994), Bradshaw v. Zoological Society of San Diego (1981)
29 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord
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.
““must conclusively determine the disputed question, resolve an important issue completely separate from the merits of the action, and be effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment.” Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay, 437 U.S. 463 , 468 [ 98 S.Ct. 2454 , 2457, 57 L.Ed.2d 351 ] (1978). See also Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord, 449 U.S. 368 , 375 [ 101 S.Ct. 669 , 674, 66 L.Ed.2d 571 ] (1981).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Appleby v. Meachum · Holt v. Ford“(a)ppellant's cause of action is not complicated, and we are aware of no circumstances which would preclude this pro se litigant from presenting his claim to the district court and, if need be, to this court after the entry of final judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o be appealable as a final collateral order, the challenged order must constitute 'a complete, formal and, in the trial court, final rejection'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holt v. Ford
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.