Kothe v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
771 F.2d 667 · 1985
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Calloway v. Marvel Entertainment Group (1988), Guillory v. Domtar Industries Inc. (1996)
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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
Relies on ABKCO Music, Inc. v. Harrisongs Music, Ltd. · Padovani v. Bruchhausen · Del Rio v. Northern Blower Co. · MacLeod v. D. C. Transit System, 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 16 ... was not designed as a means for clubbing the parties....”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. at 699. When the case settled for $20,000, after one day of trial, the district court proceeded to penalize the”
1 later decision 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.