Tolson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
732 F.2d 998 · 1984
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Taylor v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1997), Committee for Educational Equality v. State (1994)
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 18 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. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2402 · 28 U.S.C. § 292
Relies on Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. MacKey · Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Wetzel · Local P-171 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America v. Thompson Farms Company Plank · Gold Seal Co. v. Weeks · Gas-A-Car, Inc. v. American Petrofina, 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a district judge, in making in a civil action an order not otherwise ap-pealable under this section, shall be of the opinion that such order involves a controlling question of law as to which there is substantial ground for difference of opinion and that an immediate appeal from the order may materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation, he shall so state in writing in such order.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he line between deciding one of several claims and deciding only part of a single claim is sometimes very obscure.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harry J. Gerardi Coolidge J. Marqueen Estate of Coolidge J. Marqueen v. Leonard A. Pelullo David Hellhake David Niefield Raul Corona Moshe Milstein Alan Weisberger Compton Press, Inc. Equity Finance Group, Inc. Compton Press Inc. Employees' Profit Sharing Retirement Plan Compton Press, Inc. Employees' Thrift Plan, by and Through Its Trustees and Administrators Mark P. Correia Wayne Decker Frank Genthe, Ronald Lockwood v. Granada Investments, Inc. Andrew N. Heine Away to Travel-South, Inc. Away to Travel-South Real Estate, Inc. Away to Travel-South (Georgia), Inc. Murray Schwartz Fred A. Schwartz Granada Investments, L.P. Granada Investments, Inc. Andrew N. Heine, Third-Party v. Leonard A. Pelullo Peter F. Pelullo Equity Finance Group, Inc. Fairview Financial Corporation Global Financial Corporation John Doe Trusts George Hellhake G.H. Enterprises, Inc. Coolidge J. Marqueen Estate of Harry J. Gerardi David G. Hellhake Raul Corona, Third-Party Granada Investments, Inc., Andrew N. Heine, and Granada Investments, L.P. · Gerardi“'so closely related that they would fall afoul of the rule against splitting claims if brought separately.'”
3 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.