Bulic’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Hagan v. McNallen (1995), Robb v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. (1997)
5 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Grogan v. Garner · Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership · Brown III v. Felsen · Marrese v. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons · Norwest Bank Worthington v. Ahlers
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Failure of an appellant to take any steps other than the timely filing of a notice of appeal does not affect the validity of the appeal, but is ground only for such action as the district court ... deems appropriate, which may include dismissal of the appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Within 10 days after filing the notice of appeal as provided by Rule 8001(a) ... the appellant shall file with the clerk and serve on the appellee a designation of the items to be included in the record on appeal and a statement of the issues to be presented.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When an issue of fact or law is actually litigated and determined by a valid and final judgment, and the determination is essential to the judgment, the determination is conclusive in a subsequent action between the parties, whether on the same or a different claim ... A review of Indiana case law shows that this general rule is followed by the Indiana courts as well. Bulic, 997 F.2d at 304 n. 6) (quoting Bicknell, 118 B.R. at 664 (citing Hardesty v. Bolerjack, 441 N.E.2d 243, 245 (Ind.App.1982)).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.