Sellers v. Baisier’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 690 · 1986
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2020
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 60 Ill. 2d 418 - Borowski v. Von Solbrig · 55 Ill. 2d 84 - Gertz v. Campbell · General Foam Fabricators, Inc. v. Tenneco Chemicals, Inc. · 117 Ill. App. 3d 809 - Szarat v. City of Chicago · Rosales v. Honda Motor 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Bifurcated trials are permissible in federal court under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 42, however, and Rule 42 may be applied in diversity cases even though the state law employed to determine the substantive issues in the case prohibits bifurcated trials.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“will be reversed only when exceptional circumstances show a clear abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Valbert v. Pass
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.