McGoff v. Rapone’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2008
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Newman v. Alabama · Aro Corp. v. Allied Witan Co. · Rhem v. Malcolm · Mayberry v. Maroney
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not `final' in the sense that, being without prejudice, the plaintiff is free to refile. Similarly, since it does not even require an order ... then by definition it cannot be an `appealable' order, and in that technical sense it is `nonfinal.' ... However,... a Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(a)(1) dismissal is `final' for purposes of a 60(b) motion [relief from judgment], which requires a `final judgment, order or proceeding.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Wjhere the stipulation for dismissal contains conditions agreed to by the parties, such as settlement terms, a court may reinstate the case upon a rule 60(b) motion by either party for purposes of enforcing the settlement....”
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.