Webb v. Bc Rogers Poultry Inc Bc’s Empirical Analysis
174 F.3d 697 · 1999
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee (2002), Olden v. LaFarge Corp. (2001)
11 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 Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · Smith v. Wade · Quackenbush California Insurance Commissioner v. Allstate Insurance Co · Mertens v. Hewitt Associates
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The exercise of discretion must fit within the narrow and specific limits prescribed by the particular abstention doctrine involved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A court necessarily abuses its discretion when it abstains outside of the doctrine's strictures.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Given the [United States] Supreme Court's historical emphasis, it is my perception that the focus should be upon the origin of the relief and its position at the time the federal judicial system was created, not how the cause of action has since evolved. The roots of quantum meruit are in the courts of equity; claims for quantum meruit appeared in those courts before the cause of action could be pursued at law. Claims for quantum meruit were pursued in the courts of equity at the birth of our judicial system. Thus, despite some indications, historically speaking, that quantum meruit was a legal cause of action, I am not prepared to dispositively rule that quantum meruit is a legal cause of action.”
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.