West v. Keve W’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 91 · 1983
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Lieb v. Topstone Industries, Inc. (1986), University Medical Center v. Sullivan (1992)
59 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 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. § 2107 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Griffin v. California
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appeal on the merits of the predicate case must be filed within the requisite time period following entry of judgment thereon, notwithstanding that an attorney's fee petition may also be, or has been, filed.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Should the district court prefer to consider a fee application during a pending appeal on the predicate case, the district court is not divested of jurisdiction to determine the application.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ompeting statutes should not, if at all possible, be interpreted so that the provisions of one will abrogate the provisions of another”
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.