Abel v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
904 F.2d 394 · 1990
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016
7 federal appellate ·
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 Mitchell v. Forsyth · Rakovich v. Wade · Malhotra v. Cotter & Co. · Kennedy v. City of Cleveland · Apostol v. Gallion
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would give defendants potent weapons for delay”
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.