Nichols v. Barwick’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 1520 · 1986
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Barnes v. Andover Co. (1990), Cooper v. Meridian Yachts, Ltd. (2009)
25 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Vaughan v. Atkinson · Farrell v. United States · Davis v. Hill Engineering, Inc. · Save the Bay, Inc. v. United States Army · Pelotto v. L & N Towing 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nterlocutory decrees ... determining the rights and liabilities of the parties to admiralty cases in which appeals from final decrees are allowed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it can correct the problem by carving out a maintenance and cure exception to the exclusivity rule, by waiving the United States' sovereign immunity, or by taking some other legislative action. Id 3 Although "[a]ttorney's fees are available to a plaintiff when [a private party] refuses to provide maintenance and cure in bad faith, callously, or unreasonably,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To be appealable an order must either be final or fall into a specific class of interlocutory orders made appealable by statute or jurisprudential exception.”
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.