Wright v. Schebler Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2005
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 United States v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Acuff v. Schmit · Helen McLanahan Stevens v. Chauncey C. Loomis · National Garment Co. v. New York, C. & St. L. R. · Braniff Airways, Inc. v. Falkingham
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 17(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which provides that every action shall be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, with certain exceptions relating to personal representatives, has been applied in the federal courts with respect to suits in his own name by an assignee who is found to be the real party in interest.”
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.