Kent v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
815 F.2d 1395 · 1987
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Walker v. Mortham (1998), United States v. Baus (1987)
13 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 Bonner v. City of Prichard · North Carolina v. Rice · Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis · United States v. Indrelunas · Bonanno v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“designed to eliminate the confusion that previously arose regarding whether a particular order was a final judgment triggering the limitations period for appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitute[d] an opinion rather than a separate final judgment. It did not trigger the time period for an appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This case does not involve, and we do not address, the question of whether and when a district court may reopen a case after it has been dismissed to enforce a settlement agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matison v. White
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.