Hall v. Sharpe’s Empirical Analysis
812 F.2d 644 · 1987
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably McCarthy v. Bronson (1991), 54 Cal. 3d 82 - In Re Horton (1991)
42 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United States v. Raddatz · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Schor · Spears v. Ol McCotter · Sergio Degioia v. United States Lines Company, and Third-Party v. American Stevedores, Inc., and Imparato Stevedoring Corp., Third-Party · Hill v. Duriron 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]pon the consent of the parties, a ... magistrate judge ... may conduct any or all proceedings in a jury or nonjury civil matter”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]onsent must be 'clear and unambiguous,' and cannot be inferred from the conduct of the parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the district court's referral of this case was not authorized by any provision of the Magistrate's Act, 28 U.S.C. § 636, and thus the magistrate was without jurisdiction to conduct the trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. Poulton · Clark v. Poulton
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.