Stich v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 115 · 1984
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably United States v. Cooper (2006), Merritt Logan, Inc. v. Fleming Companies, Inc. (1990)
23 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1407 · 42 U.S.C. § 247B (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009)
Relies on S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Gray v. United States · Lyon v. California · Fine Paper Antitrust Litigation State of Alaska v. Boise Cascade Corporation
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arbitrary, fanciful or clearly unreasonable.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trial court's action was arbitrary, fanciful or clearly unreasonable. Otherwise stated [the City] must show that no reasonable person would concur in the trial court's assessment of the issue under consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perez v. Cucci“plaintiffs could adequately prepare to cross-examine [the witness] from already available data.”
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.