Stanley v. Cottrell, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.3d 454 · 2015
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1821 · 28 U.S.C. § 1920
Relies on Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Crawford Fitting Company v. Jt Gibbons Inc Champion International Corporation · Hardt v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co. · Hardt v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance · Skogen v. The Dow Chemical Company
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The phrase, 'if you are a husband or a father, you'll understand,' demonstrates the use of 'or' in the conjunctive sense because it intends to include persons who are both husbands and fathers. Stanley v. Cottrell, Inc. , 784 F.3d 454 , 466 (8th Cir. 2015) (quoting Shaw v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. , 605 F.3d 1250 , 1254 n.8 (11th Cir. 2010) ). For a simpler example of and being used to connect”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In ascertaining the plain meaning of a statute, we presume that a legislature says in a statute what it means and means in a statute what it says.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he plain language of the statute contain[ed] no limiting words or phrases”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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