Kuster v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
773 F.2d 1048 · 1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2013
11 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord · Flanagan v. United States · Richardson-Merrell Inc. v. Koller Ex Rel. Koller · Baumann v. Arizona Department of Corrections
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) conclusively determine the disputed issue, (2) resolve an important issue completely separate from the merits of the action, and (3) be effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot be assessed fairly until the substance of both [the plaintiffs'] case and that of the defendant become known.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the likelihood of success on the merits as well as the ability of the [plaintiff] to articulate his claim pro se....”
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.