Murphy v. Uncle Ben's, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
168 F.3d 734 · 1999
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Black Sea Investment, Ltd. v. United Heritage Corp. (2000), 125 F. Supp. 2d 819 - Bank One, N.A. v. Coates (2001)
9 federal appellate ·
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 Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Wilton v. Seven Falls Co. · Kerotest Mfg Co v. C-O-Two Fire Equipment Co · Oscar Mayer & Co. v. Evans
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The presence of a federal law issue "must always be a major consideration weighing against surrender [of jurisdiction],”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) assumption by either court of jurisdiction over a res, (2) relative inconvenience of the forums, (3) avoidance of piecemeal litigation, (4) the order in which jurisdiction was obtained by the concurrent forums, (5) to what extent federal law provides the rules of decision on the merits, and (6) the adequacy of the state proceedings in protecting the rights of the party invoking federal jurisdiction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]riority should not be measured exclusively by which complaint was filed first, but rather in terms of how much progress has been made in the two actions.”
2 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.