Gibbs v. Paluk’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.2d 181 · 1984
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Richardson-Merrell Inc. v. Koller Ex Rel. Koller (1985), Kleiner v. First National Bank (1985)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Illinois v. Allen · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord · Flanagan 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an order must at a minimum satisfy three conditions: it must 'conclusively determine the disputed question,' 'resolve an important issue completely separate from the merits of the action,' and 'be effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“lend themselves more readily to consideration apart from the merits of the litigation than such orders in criminal cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robbins v. Maggio“[t]hese requirements are conjunctive: failure of any one results in failure of jurisdiction.”
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.