Goldstein v. Kelleher’s Empirical Analysis
728 F.2d 32 · 1984
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 12 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably Gooley v. Mobil Oil Corp. (1988), 135 S. Ct. 1932 - Wellness Int'l Network, Ltd. v. Sharif (2015)
67 federal appellate · 12 district · 9 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. § 1870 · 28 U.S.C. § 631 (Federal Magistrate Act of 1979) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · United States v. Raddatz · Patton v. United States · Frazier v. United States
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such inferences may not rest on conjecture or speculation, but rather the evidence offered must make 'the existence of the fact to be inferred more probable than its nonexistence.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“insofar as Article III protects individual litigants, those protections can be waived”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'reasonable jurors could come to but one conclusion.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.