Sacks v. Rothberg’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.2d 1098 · 1988
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2006 · most notably Thomas v. Basham (1991), TeleSTAR, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1989)
22 federal appellate · 3 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 1653
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. · Union Labor Life Insurance v. Pireno · Gillis v. United States Department of Health & Human Services · Cape May Greene, Inc. v. Warren
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appeal taken prematurely effectively ripens and secures appellate jurisdiction when the district court's judgment becomes final prior to disposition of the appeal.”
2 later decisions 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.