Watson v. Miears’s Empirical Analysis
772 F.2d 433 · 1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2016
11 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
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers · Christine M. Grunewald, Individually and as of the Will of Henry W. Grunewald, Deceased v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, a Missouri Corporation · Gas Serv. Co., in Re
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A review of the exercise of discretion by a district court for a determination of abuse must be made on the facts and circumstances of the immediate case at hand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.