Hicks v. NLO, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 118 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Jtc Petroleum Company v. Piasa Motor Fuels Inc et al. (1999), Dannenberg v. Software Toolworks Inc. (1994)
20 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Fletcher v. Gagosian · Hicks v. NLO, INC.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wjhere a court has entered judgment against a plaintiff in a case involving more than one claim and the plaintiff voluntarily dismisses the claim or claims, which made the judgment non-appealable and the dismissal is brought to the attention of the district court, this Court will not penalize the plaintiff by dismissing his or her appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“permitting a plaintiff to appeal after a voluntary dismissal about which the district judge knows nothing prevents the judge from having the opportunity to review in the context of the total litigation the earlier order dismissing part of the complaint”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the district judge signed the order of dismissal, the judge was aware that all claims were now disposed of.”
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.