McGillicuddy v. Clements’s Empirical Analysis
746 F.2d 76 · 1984
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 48 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Fleet Data Processing Corp. v. Branch (In Re Bank of New England Corp.) (1998), In re San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire Litigation (1988)
16 federal appellate · 48 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. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Rendell-Baker v. Kohn · Slotnick v. Staviskey · Dewey v. University of New Hampshire · Glaros v. Perse · Francis-Sobel v. University of Maine
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ijnterlocutory certification under 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (b) should be used sparingly and only in exceptional circumstances, and where the proposed intermediate appeal presents one or more difficult and pivotal questions of law not settled by controlling authority. In re Heddendorf 263 F.2d 887 , 888-89 (1st Cir.1959) (Magruder, Ch. J.).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[w]e would not normally allow an appeal from a denial of a motion to dismiss, and, with the benefit of hindsight, we admit our error in doing so in this case.”
2 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.