Felder v. Wyman’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2015
5 district · 4 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Hickman v. Taylor · Baltimore City Department of Social Services v. Bouknight · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Claiborne Hardware Co. · Rogers v. First National Bank of Peoria
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent a privilege no party is entitled to restrict an opponent's access to a witness ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Bi-Lo, Inc.“); Doe v. Eli Lilly & Co., 99 F.R.D. 126, 128 (D.D.C. 1983) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Bi-Lo, Inc.
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.