Work v. Bier’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2014
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
Relies on Salter v. Upjohn Co. · Dellums v. Powell · Xaphes v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. · Hall v. Leon County Building Supply Co. · Dunn v. Standard Fire Insurance
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Magistrate fully agrees with counsel for the defendants to the effect that the universally accepted rule in federal litigation is that, in the absence of special circumstances (such as an impoverished plaintiff and a very affluent defendant), a party seeking discovery must go where the desired witnesses are normally located....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reed v. Binder
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.