Lewis v. Bf Goodrich Company’s Empirical Analysis
850 F.2d 641 · 1988
Citation profile
114 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Sanchez v. Denver Public Schools (1998), Hinton v. City of Elwood (1993)
114 federal appellate · 3 district · 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
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Foman v. Davis · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Catlin v. United States · Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. v. Mayacamas 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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e will deem the notice of appeal to ripen as of the date of certification and will accept jurisdiction pursuant to the savings provision of Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(2).”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen an action presents more than one claim for relief ... or when multiple parties are involved, the court may direct entry of a final judgment as to one or more, but fewer than all, claims or parties only if the court expressly determines that there is no just reason for delay. Otherwise, any order or other decision, however designated, that adjudicates fewer than all the claims or the rights and liabilities of fewer than all the parties does not end the action as to any of the claims or parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In the situation like that before us, in which the other claims were effectively dismissed after the notice of appeal was filed, we believe Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(2) permits the interpretation that the notice of appeal, filed prematurely, ripens and saves the appeal.... In such cases generally we will consolidate or companion the earlier appeal with any subsequent appeals arising out of the same district court case.”
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.