Fields v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s Empirical Analysis
743 F.2d 890 · 1984
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably 135 S. Ct. 1932 - Wellness Int'l Network, Ltd. v. Sharif (2015), Gairola v. Commonwealth of Virginia Department of General Services (1985)
14 federal appellate · 7 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. § 631 (Federal Magistrate Act of 1979) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Gotthelf v. Commissioner · In Re Peterson · Palmore v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa de Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary— (1) Upon the consent of the parties, a full-time United States magistrate or a part-time United States magistrate who serves as a full-time judicial officer may conduct any or all proceedings in a jury or nonjury civil matter and order the entry of judgment in the case, when specially designated to exercise such jurisdiction by the district court or courts he serves.”
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.