MAI Basic Four, Inc. v. Basis, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
962 F.2d 978 · 1992
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Amsouth Bank v. Dale (2004), Roley v. New World Pictures, Ltd. (1994)
15 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Bounds v. Smith · Carson v. American Brands, Inc. · Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. v. Mayacamas Corp. · Baltimore Contractors, Inc. v. Bodinger · Weatherford v. Bursey
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“granting, continuing, modifying, refusing or dissolving injunctions, or refusing to dissolve or modify injunctions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'fit[ ] squarely within the plain language of section 1292(a)(1).'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]his circuit has long recognized a clean distinction between injunctions prohibiting proceedings in other courts, which are appealable, and orders, whether or not styled `injunctions,' that control proceedings only in the court that issues the order. Thus, if a district court acts to halt proceedings in another court, its action is indeed an injunction within the meaning of section 1292(a)(1) ....”
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.