Estate of Bishop v. Bechtel Power Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
905 F.2d 1272 · 1990
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Cabrera v. City of Huntington Park (1998), Nos. 93-55478, 93-55695 (1995)
30 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1292 · 29 U.S.C. § 1131 (§ 501 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Carnegie v. United States · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because a party can hardly be expected to shoulder the financial burden of sanctions entered against its attorney, it lacks the requisite interest for standing to appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because [the attorney] has not pursued an appeal of his own, we must decide whether a party has standing to appeal an order of sanctions against its attorney.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to have standing to appeal, a party must be aggrieved by the judicial action from which it appeals.”
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.