Wheeldin v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
413 federal appellate · 137 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,135 later decisions (60 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1971), Cort v. Ash (1975)
413 federal appellate · 137 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWheeldin v. Wheeler (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Mapp v. Ohio · Monroe v. Pape · Bell v. Hood · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala.
Cited together with Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Bell v. Hood · Cort v. Ash · Erie Co v. Tompkins · J. I. Case Co. v. Borak
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 1,135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s respects the creation by the federal courts of common-law rights, it is perhaps needless to state that we are not in the free-wheeling days antedating Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins , 304 U.S. 64 , [58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188] [1938].”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arise under the Constitution of laws of the United States”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right of the [plaintiff] to recover under [the] complaint will be sustained if the ... laws of the United States are given one construction and will be defeated if they are given another.”
3 later decisions 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.