Benjamin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
833 F.2d 669 · 1987
Citation profile
35 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Coniston Corporation v. Village of Hoffman Estates (1988), Smith-Bey v. Hospital Administrator (1988)
35 federal appellate ·
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. § 1291
Relies on Michel v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Lewy v. Weinberger · Car Carriers, Inc. v. Ford Motor Co. · Dardi 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dismissal of the entire action end[ing] the litigation and forc[ing] the plaintiff to choose between appealing the judgment or moving to reopen the judgment ... pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 60.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is 'clear' that the court below found that 'the action could not be saved by any amendment of the complaint which the plaintiff could reasonably be expected to make,' " then this "special circumstance”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. Since the language that the district court used in its judgment specified exactly what was dismissed, the complaint and only the complaint, the judgment was not appealable. In contrast, here the district court entered a Minute Order of June 16, 1994 amending the judgment to include:”
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.