Zeidner v. Wulforst’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1997 · most notably United Housing Foundation, Inc. v. Forman (1975), Blake v. Kline (1979)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Reagan v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · Great Northern Life Ins Co v. Read · Petty v. Tennessee-Missouri Bridge Commission
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court finds that the Authority, while not the alter ego of the State, has nevertheless been validly clothed with partial immunity from suits. It may not be sued in any court of general jurisdiction within the State of New York; it is therefore immune from suit in this Court in spite of the diversity of citizenship of the suitors. Consequently, the complaint against the Authority must be dismissed. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sherman v. Ulmer““ * * * The Court is therefore compelled to conclude that as a matter of Federal law, the Authority is not the ‘alter ego’ of the State and may not assert the immunity from suit granted by the Eleventh Amendment under this theory. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sherman v. Ulmer
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.