Washington Hospital v. White’s Empirical Analysis
889 F.2d 1294 · 1989
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Braxton v. United States (1991), Dedham Water Co. v. Cumberland Farms Dairy, Inc. (1992)
28 federal appellate · 13 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
Relies on United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co. · United States v. Armour & Co. · Firefighters Local Union No. 1784 v. Stotts · Central Intelligence Agency v. Holy Spirit Ass'n for the Unification of World Christianity · Mellon Bank, N.A. v. Aetna Business Credit, 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Although] we have rejected the suggestion that federal judges have inherent power to enforce settlement agreements arising out of lawsuits that were once before them[,] ... we have expressed no doubt of the power of a district court to dismiss a lawsuit conditionally, retaining jurisdiction to effectuate terms of settlement agreed to by the parties. Nor do we think there is any magic form of words that the judge must intone in order to make the retention of jurisdiction effective. All that is necessary is that it be possible to infer that he did intend to retain jurisdiction — that he did not dismiss the case outright, thereby relinquishing jurisdiction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen an order is made in favor of a person who is not a party to the action, that person may enforce obedience to the order by the same process as if a party....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a stipulated agreement signed by the court does allow a district court to retain jurisdiction”
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.