Mucha v. King’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 602 · 1986
Citation profile
135 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Mars Steel Corp. v. Continental Bank N.A. (1989), In re Oil Spill by the Amoco Cadiz off the Coast of France on March 16, 1978 (1992)
135 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Miller v. Fenton · Roland Machinery Company v. Dresser Industries Inc
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assigns to the trial judge the responsibility of determining not only the historical events that are relevant to how the case should be decided but also the legal significance of those events”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“applying a legal standard to a descriptive or historical narrative,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a particular and nonrecurring set of historical events,”
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.