O'Connor ex rel. Capital Development Co. v. Colvin’s Empirical Analysis
70 F.3d 530 · 1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2016
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1338
Relies on Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America · Hagestad v. Tragesser · Topolos v. Caldewey
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The settlement terms must be part of the dismissal in order for violation of the settlement agreement to amount to a violation of the court's order. Without a violation of the court's order, there is no jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“even a district court's expressed intention to retain jurisdiction is insufficient to confer jurisdiction if that intention is not expressed in the order of dismissal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he judge's mere awareness and approval of the terms of the settlement agreement do not suffice to make them part of his order.”
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.