Abdullah v. ACandS, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.3d 264 · 1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2024
5 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1407
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Ruiz v. Alegria · HMG Property Investors, Inc. v. Parque Industrial Rio Canas, Inc. · Zavala Santiago v. Gonzalez Rivera · Kuehl v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Complaint is bereft of factual allegations indicating why [1,093 parties] belong in the same action”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Persons . . . may be joined in one action as defendants if: (A) any right to relief is asserted against them jointly, severally, or in the alternative - 36 - with respect to or arising out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences; and (B) any question of law or fact common to all defendants will arise in the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ny claim against a party may be severed and proceeded with separately.”
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.