Thomas v. Basham’s Empirical Analysis
931 F.2d 521 · 1991
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Duke (1995), Union Pacific Railroad Co. v. United Transportation Union (1993)
35 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 Catlin v. United States · Bender v. Williamsport Area School District · McNamara v. County of San Diego Department of Social Services · Oneida Motor Freight, Inc. v. United Jersey · Ethridge V. Harbor House Restaurant
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“every federal appellate court has a special obligation to consider its own jurisdiction. In fact, jurisdiction issues will be raised sua sponte by a federal court when there is an indication that jurisdiction is lacking, even if the parties concede the issue.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]very federal appellate court has a special obligation to satisfy itself... of its own jurisdiction....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A 'final decision' [under section 1291] generally is one which ends the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing for the court to do but execute the judgment.”
3 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.