Baker v. Dale’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2017
9 federal appellate · 3 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 William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Franz v. Buder · Redmond v. Commerce Trust Co. · Riggs v. Moise · Atwood v. National Bank
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.
“While the need to join `indispensable parties' and the permissive right to join parties who are `not indispensable', in an action pending in the Federal court, is procedural, and, hence, governed solely by rules of procedures applicable in the Federal court, particularly Rule 19 of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Title 28 U.S.C., yet the matter of who constitute `indispensable parties', in a particular case, depends upon the nature of the right in suit and that, in turn, depends upon the substantive law.”
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.