McLaughlin v. Cheshire’s Empirical Analysis
676 F.2d 855 · 1982
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Kern v. TXO Production Corp. (1984), Noxell Corporation v. Firehouse No Bar-B-Que Restaurant Noxell Corporation (1985)
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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 Copeland v. Marshall · LeCompte v. Mr. Chip, Inc. · Gaf Corporation v. Transamerica Insurance Company Gaf Corporation
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“alleviate harm (other than tactical disadvantage) that the defendant [would] suffer if the motion [to dismiss were] granted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]efendants do not suffer harm from having to pay the full costs of defending an action in a proper forum, and plaintiffs should not be forced to pay for work that is being or will be used against them in ongoing litigation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the record [was] bare of facts or any statement of reasons by the District Court showing why payment of over $4,000 was a reasonable condition to impose on granting appellants' motion.”
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.