Abbs v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
963 F.2d 918 · 1992
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Retired Chicago Police Association Carepac v. City of Chicago M, GenCorp, Inc. v. American International Underwriters (1999)
62 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan · Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis · Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Wetzel
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] winner cannot appeal a judgment merely because there are passages in the court's opinion that displease him -- that may indeed come back to haunt him in a future case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he premise of such a motion is that the judgment was wrong in some respect. This makes a challenge to the denial of the motion a challenge to the judgment itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a dilemma: comply with a rule that harms [it] and that [it] believe[s] to be invalid or violate the rule at the risk of incurring a heavy penalty”
2 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.