Stevens v. Greyhound Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 1224 · 1983
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably United States v. Vega (1988), United States v. Zambrana (1988)
33 federal appellate · 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Fox v. Studebaker-Worthington, Inc. · Anthony v. Marion County General Hospital · Beshear v. Weinzapfel
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in general we will not set aside a trial court's discretionary order unless it is clear that no reasonable person could concur in the trial court's assessment of the issue under consideration.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in order to ensure that litigants who are vigorously pursuing their cases are not hindered by those who are not.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'failure to appear' for a deposition is strictly construed and Rule 37(d) sanctions apply only when a deponent literally fails to show up for a deposition session”
2 later decisions 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.