121 F. Supp. 2d 404 - In Re Wechsler’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2025
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · State v. Simpson · Bisso v. Inland Waterways Corp.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party who has reason to anticipate litigation has an affirmative duty to preserve evidence which might be relevant to the issues in the lawsuit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“did act in bad faith, 'intend[ing] to impair the ability of the other side to effectively litigate its case.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any negligent acts or omissions by [the marina] and its employees.”
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.