Refac International, Ltd. v. IBM’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 459 · 1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2014
1 federal appellate ·
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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. · Roemer v. United States · Waldschmidt v. Ranier · Connell v. Sears, Roebuck & 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be said to fall just within the ragged edge of the penumbra surrounding legitimate advocacy”
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.