Phillips v. Seiter’s Empirical Analysis
173 F.3d 609 · 1999
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 18 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably In re Cline (2008), Daniel v. American Board of Emergency Medicine (2005)
34 federal appellate · 18 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
Relies on Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. · In re Sims · Liriano v. United States · Coleman v. United States
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a civil action is filed in a court as defined in section 610 of this title ... and that court finds that there is a want of jurisdiction, the court shall, if it is in the interest of justice, transfer such action ... to any other such court in which the action ... could have been brought. 3”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is no reason to raise false hopes and waste judicial resources by transferring a case that is clearly doomed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the term `interest of justice' is vague, district courts have a good deal of discretion in deciding whether to transfer a case”
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.