Buchanan v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
820 F.2d 359 · 1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Citronelle-Mobile Gathering, Inc. v. Watkins (1991), American Family Life Assurance Co. v. United States Fire Co. (1989)
8 federal appellate · 4 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 National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Nishimatsu Construction Co. v. Houston National Bank · United States v. Jones · Hepperle v. Johnston
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“admits the plaintiff's well-pleaded allegations of fact”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the party's conduct amounts to flagrant disregard and willful disobedience of discovery orders.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[L]iability is well-pled in the complaint, and is therefore established by the entry of default....”
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.