Loretangeli v. Critelli’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 186 · 1988
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Keenan v. City of Philadelphia (1992), Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. Richardson-Vicks Inc (1990)
47 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 1331 · 29 U.S.C. § 401 (Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) · 29 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on Eisenstadt v. Baker · Trammel v. United States · Medlin v. Mann · Gateway Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers · Goldman v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court may consider a pure question of law even if not raised below where refusal to reach the issue would result in a miscarriage of justice or where the issue's resolution is of public importance.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if the court abused its discretion, committed an obvious error in applying the law, or made a serious mistake in considering the proof.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]efenses which necessitate the determination of a genuine issue of material fact, being beyond the scope of summary judgment procedure, are a fortiori, beyond the scope of a proceeding to determine whether a section 501(b) complaint may be filed.”
3 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.