Diepen v. Fernow’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1967
4 district · 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 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Troy Bank of Troy Indiana v. G a Whitehead & Company · Pinel v. Pinel · Clay v. Field · Herman Pinel v. Thomas F Pinel F O · 27 F. Supp. 413 - Tullgren v. Jasper
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * misjoinder of parties is not a ground of defense and, therefore, not a ground for dismissal. The suitable remedy in such a case is to drop the party who has been improperly joined.””
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.