Lundblad v. Celeste’s Empirical Analysis
874 F.2d 1097 · 1989
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1991), Triplett Grille, Inc. v. City of Akron (1994)
18 federal appellate · 1 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Gregg v. Georgia · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Elrod v. Burns
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]nasmuch as the consolidation of both actions below did not merge the suits into a single cause, it is beyond preadventure [sic] that the trial court's decision dismissing [defendant] and thereby terminating [plaintiff's] action is a final appealable order not requiring further certification pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“may direct the entry of a final judgment as to one or more but fewer than all of the claims or parties only upon an express determination that there is no just reason for delay and upon an express direction for the entry of judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.