McDowell v. Safeway Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
758 F.2d 1293 · 1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2017
6 federal appellate ·
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. § 1920 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Galella v. Onassis · Studiengesellschaft Kohle v. Eastman Kodak Co. · McDowell v. Safeway Stores, Inc. · McDowell v. Safeway Stores, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“necessarily obtained for use in the case.”
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.