Farquhar v. Shelden’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2015
1 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. § 1781
Relies on Salter v. Upjohn Co. · Hyam v. American Export Lines, Inc. · Terry v. Modern Woodmen · Haymes v. Columbia Pictures Corp. · National Bank of Detroit v. Shelden
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the absence of special circumstances, a party seeking discovery must go where the desired witnesses are normally located.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“subject to the power of the court to grant a protective order.”
1 later decision 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.