American Telephone and Telegraph Company v. United Computer Systems Inc American Telephone and Telegraph Company’s Empirical Analysis
98 F.3d 1206 · 1996
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Webb v. Ada County (2002), Citicorp Real Estate, Inc. v. Smith (1998)
11 federal appellate · 4 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 Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · Neal v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Liberty Mortgage Co. v. Frey · Johnson v. Brown
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n diversity actions, state law determines the rate of prejudgment interest, and postjudgment interest is governed by federal law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from the date of the entry of judgment[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here a prior judgment awarding damages has been vacated pursuant to the actions of an ultimately losing party, equitable principles favor calculating the interest in a manner that more fully compensates the prevailing party”
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.