Eaton v. Jamrog’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 760 · 1993
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Kingvision Pay-Per-View Ltd. v. Lake Alice Bar (1999), Kalamazoo River Study Group v. Rockwell International Corp. (2004)
16 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Myers v. Ace Hardware, Inc. · Baker v. Raulie · Ellis v. Delta Air Lines, 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] district court may not vacate its earlier judgment to avoid thestatutorily mandated manner in which an appellant must file a proper notice of appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“after the date of entry of the judgment or order appealed from.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“explicitly requires a motion from the affected party.”
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.