Thibaut v. Ourso’s Empirical Analysis
705 F.2d 118 · 1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2024
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 International Harvester Credit Corporation and International Harvester Company v. East Coast Truck and R. v. Sales, Inc., East Coast Truck and R. v. Sales, Inc. v. International Harvester Company · Fink v. Continental Foundry & Machine Co. · American Grain Ass'n v. Lee-Vac, Ltd. · National Labor Relations Board v. O. E. Szekely & Associates, Inc.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if, pending an appeal an event occurs which renders it impossible for [an] appellate court to grant any relief or renders the decision unnecessary, the appeal will be dismissed as moot.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Raymond J. Donovan, Secretary of the United States Department of Labor, Cross-Appellee v. Kenneth R. Cunningham, Defendant-Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, L.J. Carter and Mark W. Perrin, Defendants-Third Party Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, Salvador Esparza and Edward F. Fritcher, Defendants-Third Party Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants v. Wilford H. Hairell and A. Mitchell Robertson, Defendants-Third Party Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants- Cross-Appellees v. Allied Bank of Texas, Third Party Defendant-Cross-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Metropolitan Contract Services, Inc., Third Party Defendant-Cross-Appellee · Donovan v. Cunningham“cannot ask this Court to reconstruct a legal and financial puzzle which is now missing several pieces”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is impossible for this Court to vacate the judgment below, for the dismissal of the state court actions has sent that portion of the settlement irretrievably beyond our reach. Nor can we simply take the $100,000 back from McNutt, return him the promissory notes, and leave the rest of the judgment intact, for it is clear from the record that the numerous settlement provisions were interdependent. Even if we were to hold for McNutt on the merits of the case, we could not possibly return the parties to the suit, and third parties, to the legal positions they held before the settlement took effect.”
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.