Wimmer v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
774 F.2d 68 · 1985
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2012 · most notably McCarthy v. Bronson (1991), Beaudett v. City of Hampton (1985)
40 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 18 U.S.C. § 3401 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · United States v. Raddatz · Mathews v. Weber · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appellate court must be satisfied that a district judge has exercised his non-delegable authority by considering the actual testimony, and not merely by reviewing the magistrate's report and recommendations.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) Upon the consent of the parties, a full-time United States magistrate or a part-time United States magistrate who serves as a full-time judicial officer may conduct any or all proceedings in a jury or nonjury civil matter and order the entry of judgment in the case, when specially designated to exercise such jurisdiction by the district court or courts he serves.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A judge of the court shall make a de novo determination of those portions of the report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which objection is made.”
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.