Drake v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
812 F.2d 395 · 1987
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Swint v. Chambers County Commission (1995), Kincade v. City of Blue Springs (1995)
73 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. § 636
Relies on Mitchell v. Forsyth · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Kennedy v. City of Cleveland · De Abadia v. Izquierdo Mora · Moran v. Ohio
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen an interlocutory appeal is properly before us . . . we have jurisdiction also to decide closely related issues of law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“disregard a precedent handed down by another panel. Only the [c]ourt en banc can take [this] action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all employment contracts with no fixed term are terminable at will, even if there is a provision in the employment contract that an employee will not be discharged except for good cause.”
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.