Brookens v. White’s Empirical Analysis
795 F.2d 178 · 1986
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably McGuckin v. Smith (1992), Rivera v. Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority (2012)
38 federal appellate · 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. § 1292
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Curtiss-Wright Corporation v. General Electric Company · 102 S. Ct. 969 - United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Laskey Bros. of West Virginia, Inc. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · Coloma Community School District v. Berry
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“elementary that a grant of summary judgment as to some parties in multi-party litigation does not constitute a final order unless the requirements of Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b) are met”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the specification of [other] orders and hearing dates [or] fail[ed] to mention the [disputed] order in either the notice of appeal or the docketing statement”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] mistake in designating the judgment ... should not result in loss of the appeal as long as the intent to appeal from a specific judgment can be fairly inferred from the notice and the appellee is not misled by the mistake”
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.