Sockwell v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
906 F.2d 1096 · 1990
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2019
11 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. § 631 (Federal Magistrate Act of 1979) · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Gomez v. United States · Griffith v. Oles · United States v. Boswell · Archie v. Christian · Gogolin & Stelter v. Karn's Auto Imports, 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is jurisdictional, or at least plainly more fundamental than that in Archie”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the situation was as if the section 636(c) consent had never been given, and, accordingly, the magistrate simply lacked the power to try the case and enter judgment in it.”
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.