Diamond v. McKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
770 F.2d 225 · 1985
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Glidden v. Chromalloy American Corp. (1986), Yates v. District of Columbia (2003)
33 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2107
Relies on Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis · United States v. Indrelunas · New York v. Penn Central Transportation Co. · United States v. F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. · United States v. Hark
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from Model Forms 31 and 32, which were passed contemporaneously with the amendment to Rule 58.Id. at 229 n.9. 31 It is precisely this kind of uncertainty about whether the District Court intended to enter a final order that war-rants the mechanical application of Rule 58. By mechanically applying this rule, as the Supreme Court has taught us to do, a court may avoid speculation as to whether an appellant should or should not have known that the time for appeal had begun to run. 32 Id. at 230 (footnote omitted). We concluded:”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]very judgment shall be set forth on a separate document. A judgment is effective only when so set forth and when entered as provided in Rule 79(a).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“basis, albeit briefly, of the court's reasoning, along with citations to legal authorities.”
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.