Willhauck v. Halpin’s Empirical Analysis
919 F.2d 788 · 1990
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Willhauck v. Halpin (1991), Fiore v. Washington County Community Mental Health Center (1992)
19 federal appellate · 2 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co. · Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis · United States v. Indrelunas
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should always be interpreted 'to prevent loss of the right to appeal, not to facilitate loss.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) Judgment Upon Multiple Claims or Involving Multiple Parties. When more than one claim for relief is presented in an action, whether as a claim, counterclaim, cross-claim, or third-party claim, or when multiple parties are involved, the court may direct the entry of a final judgment as to one or more but fewer than all of the claims or parties only upon an express determination that there is no just reason for delay and upon an express direction for the entry of judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`mechanical change' that must be mechanically applied to avoid new uncertainties as to the date on which a judgment is entered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Furtado v. Laferriere · Mullane
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.