Bell, Boyd & Lloyd v. Tapy’s Empirical Analysis
896 F.2d 1101 · 1990
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Waldridge v. American Hoechst Corp. (1994), Flaherty v. Gas Research Institute (1994)
41 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Lorenzen v. Employees Retirement Plan of the Sperry & Hutchinson Co. · Herman v. City of Chicago · Richardson v. Bonds · Barry Clifford v. M/v Islander and Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] local rule of a federal district court is written by and for district judges to deal with the special problems of their court, and we are disposed therefore to give a district judge's interpretation of his court's local rules ... considerable weight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'entitlee the prevailing plaintiff in a federal suit ... to postjudgment interest at a rate fixed in the statute, whether or not there is an award of interest in the judgment, ... or even a request for interest in the complaint'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grubnich v. Renner“conceded the essential elements of the law firm's suit--that he agreed to pay it for its services at its regular rates and that those services were performed as agreed with excellent results.”
1 later decision 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.