Gibson v. Firestone’s Empirical Analysis
741 F.2d 1268 · 1984
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2024
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Goosby v. Osser
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“retains the authority to interpret [the] scope and availability”
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.