Mhd v. Westminster Schools’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.3d 797 · 1999
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Delbert Heard v. Michael F. Sheahan (2001), Stanley v. Trustees of California State University (2006)
7 federal appellate · 1 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 Bell v. Hood · Reed v. United Transportation Union · Grove City College v. Bell · Lillard v. Shelby County Board of Education · Blue Cross & Blue Shield v. Sanders
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a party claims a right that arises under the laws of the United States, a federal court has jurisdiction over the controversy. If the court concludes that the federal statute provides no relief ... then it properly dismisses that cause of action for failure to state a claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) or 12(c). Dismissal for want of subject matter jurisdiction is inappropriate in such an instance unless the federal claim “clearly appears to be immaterial and made solely for the purpose of obtaining jurisdiction or where such a claim is wholly insubstantial and frivolous.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a] district court [therefore] had jurisdiction to entertain th[e] controversy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“neither immaterial nor wholly frivolous,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.