McCulloch v. Vélez’s Empirical Analysis
364 F.3d 1 · 2004
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 44 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably McKenna v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (2012), Spooner v. EEN, Inc. (2011)
9 federal appellate · 44 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 United States v. Zannino · Zahn v. International Paper Co. · Reynolds v. Army & Air Force Exchange Service · Clark v. Paul Gray, Inc. · Kramer v. Caribbean Mills, Inc.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is black-letter law that a federal court has an obligation to inquire sua sponte into its own subject matter jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A district court shall not have jurisdiction of a civil action in which any party, by assignment or otherwise, has been improperly or collusively made or joined to invoke the jurisdiction of such court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.