Viqueira v. First Bank’s Empirical Analysis
140 F.3d 12 · 1998
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 92 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Inc. v. American Bar Ass'n (1998), In Re Mailman Steam Carpet Cleaning Corp
31 federal appellate · 92 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Rhode Island District Court)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1464 (Consumer Home Mortgage Assistance Act of 1974) · 12 U.S.C. § 214B · 12 U.S.C. § 632 (§ 25b of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1337 · 28 U.S.C. § 1349
Relies on Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Texas Industries, Inc. v. Radcliff Materials, Inc. · City of Chicago v. International College of Surgeons · Gibbs v. Buck
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, a claim arises under federal law within the meaning of section 1331 if a federal cause of action emerges from the face of a well-pleaded complaint.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] district court must construe the complaint liberally.”
3 later decisions 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.