Chappelle v. Beacon Communications Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
84 F.3d 652 · 1996
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Denham v. City of New Carlisle (1999), Lazard Freres & Co. v. Protective Life Insurance (1997)
27 federal appellate · 8 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. § 1291
Relies on United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Honig v. Doe · Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Erie Lackawanna, Inc. · Birt v. Georgia · Fassett v. Delta Kappa Epsilon
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a dismissal without prejudice [that] does not preclude another action on the same claims”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unless otherwise specified in the order, a dismissal under [Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(a)(2)] is without prejudice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a litigant could refuse to proceed whenever a trial judge ruled against him, wait for the court to enter a dismissal [pursuant to Rule 41], and then obtain review of the judge’s interlocutory decision, the policy against piecemeal litigation and review would be severely weakened. This procedural technique would in effect provide a means to avoid the finality rule embodied in 28 U.S.C. § 1291 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Palmieri v. Defaria
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.