Wigler v. Electronic Data Systems Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Syracuse Broadcasting Corporation v. Samuel I. Newhouse, the Herald Company, the Post-Standard Company and Central New York Broadcasting Corporation · Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Carr · Isaac v. Shell Oil Co. · Lantz v. New York Central Railroad · Al-Jundi v. Rockefeller
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`should not be of such great number and broad scope as to cover all the issues [even] of a complex case,' and `[o]bviously . . . should not be sought in an attempt to harass an opposing party.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haley v. Harbin
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.