Knafel’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2010
7 federal appellate · 4 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 San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Catlin v. United States · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although Rule 54(b) provides a means by which a district court may release for immediate appeal final decisions resolving one or more but fewer than all of the claims or parties in a multiple-claim or multiple-party action, Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b), it does not empower the district court to treat as final that which is not final within the meaning of § 1291.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“since there is no final judgment in the district court, and the district court's purported certification under Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b) was improper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n appeal taken from a nonfinal judgment is beyond our jurisdiction and must be dismissed.”
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.