364 F. Supp. 2d 503 - Walker v. Flitton’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person other than a licensed funeral director shall, directly or indirectly, or through an agent, offer to or enter into a contract with a living person to render funeral services to such person when needed. If any such licensed funeral director shall accept any money for such contracts, he shall ... either deposit the same in an escrow account in, or transfer the same in trust to, a banking institution in [Pennsylvania], conditioned upon its withdrawal or disbursement only for the purposes for which such money was accepted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Heffner v. Murphy“any person engaged in the profession of a funeral director or in the care and disposition of the human dead, or in the practice of disinfecting and preparing by embalming the human dead for the funeral service, burial or cremation, or the supervising of the burial, transportation or disposal of deceased human bodies, or in the practice of funeral directing or embalming as presently known.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Heffner v. Murphy“(a) No person shall practice as a funeral director as defined herein, in this Commonwealth unless he holds a valid license so to do as provided in [the Law].... (c) No person other than a licensed funeral director shall, directly or indirectly, ... offer to or enter into a contract with a living person to render funeral services to such person when needed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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