Donahue v. FNMA’s Empirical Analysis
2020
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co. · IUE AFL-CIO Pension Fund v. Herrmann · Harvey Aluminum, Inc. v. American Cyanamid Co. · Hitchcock v. Florida · Wakefield v. Northern Telecom, Inc.
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[G]enerally, '[t]he filing of a notice of appeal is an event of jurisdictional significance -- it confers jurisdiction on the court of appeals and divests the district court of its control - 15 - over those aspects of the case involved in the appeal.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no divestiture . . . occurs 'if the notice of appeal is defective in some substantial and easily discernible way (if, for example, it is based on an unappealable order).'”
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.