Hill v. Xyquad, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
939 F.2d 627 · 1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably RoDa Drilling Co. v. Siegal (2009), Gateway Eastern Railway Co. v. Terminal Railroad (1994)
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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
Relies on Dataphase Systems, Inc. v. C L Systems, Inc. · Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp. · Nutrition v. United States · Concrete Machinery Co. v. Classic Lawn Ornaments, Inc. · Peterkin v. Pennsylvania
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although [the Eighth Circuit] allow[s] the district court much discretion in setting bond, [it] will reverse [the district court's] order if it abuses that discretion due to some improper purpose, or otherwise fails to require an adequate bond or to make the necessary findings in support of its determinations.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.