Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Bath Iron Works Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 11 · 1988
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2016 · most notably Forney v. Apfel (1998), Recticel Foam Corporation San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire Litigation Recticel Foam Corporation (1988)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 · 33 U.S.C. § 910 · 33 U.S.C. § 919 · 33 U.S.C. § 921 · 33 U.S.C. § 944
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Catlin 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o matter how tantalizing a problem may be, a federal appellate court cannot scratch intellectual itches unless it has jurisdiction to reach them.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n order or judgment is usually considered 'final' (hence, appealable) only when it resolves the contested matter, leaving nothing to be done except execution of the judgment. A corollary rule is that an order remanding a matter to an administrative agency for further findings and proceedings is not final.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it has been a marked characteristic of the federal judicial system not to permit an appeal until a litigation has been concluded in the court of first instance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sierra Club v. Marsh
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.