Walker Process Equipment, Inc. v. FMC Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
356 F.2d 449 · 1966
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2001 · most notably Grafon Corp. v. Hausermann (1979), International Harvester Co. v. Deere & Co. (1980)
17 federal appellate · 4 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 Aralac, Inc. v. Hat Corp. · Electro Bleachung Gas Co. v. Paradon Engineering Co. · National Coupling Co. v. Press-Seal Gasket Corp. · Ashbaugh 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Declaratory Judgment Act created no new rights, but rather created a new remedy with which to adjudicate existing rights.””
2 later decisions 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.