Interstate Power Company v. Kansas City Power & Light Company & Kansas City Power & Light Company’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 804 · 1993
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Massachusetts v. Blackstone Valley Electric Co. (1995), Cerny v. Todco Barricade Co. (2007)
22 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 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 Curtiss-Wright Corporation v. General Electric Company · Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United Distribution Cos. · Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United Distribution Cos. · National Labor Relations Board v. Burns International Security Services, Inc. · United States v. Alcan Aluminum Corp.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the court may direct the entry of a final judgment as to one or more but fewer than all of the claims ... only upon an expressed determination that there is no just reason for delay and upon an express direction for the entry of judgment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must still determine that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law on [each] claim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] Rule 54(b) determination should not be made routinely; it is only the 'special case’ that warrants an immediate appeal from a partial resolution of the lawsuit.” Interstate Power v. Kansas City Power, supra at 807, citing Hardie v. Cotter & Co., 819 F.2d 181, 182 (8th Cir.1987). Indeed, the mere incantation, that there is”
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.