Colman v. Shimer’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2011
2 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on Salem Trust Co. v. Manufacturers' Finance Co. · Wecker v. National Enameling & Stamping Co. · Barney v. Latham · Niles-Bement-Pond Co. v. Iron Moulders Union Local No. 68 · Walden v. Skinner
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“id., who has possession of the funds which are the subject of litigation, he must often be joined purely as a means of facilitating collection. The court needs to order the nominal defendant to turn over funds to the prevailing party when the dispute between the parties is resolved. A nominal defendant is not a real party in interest, however, because he has no interest in the subject matter litigated. His relation to the suit is merely incidental and”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is of no moment [to him] whether the one or the other side in [the] controversy succeed[s].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in a subordinate or possessory capacity as to which there is no dispute.”
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.