Thompson v. Betts’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 1243 · 1985
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Mosley v. Cozby (1987), Gerald Burge v. St Tammany Parish of et al. (1999)
57 federal appellate · 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Catlin 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appealability by making an express determination that there is no just reason for delay and then explicitly direct the entry of judgment on the order.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ends the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing for the court to do but execute the judgment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“small class [of orders] which finally determine claims of right separable from, and collateral to, rights asserted in the action, too important to be denied review and too independent of the cause itself to require that appellate consideration be deferred until the whole case is adjudicated.”
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.