Particle Data Laboratories, Inc. v. Coulter Electronics, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
420 F.2d 1174 · 1969
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 1984 · most notably Roland Machinery Company v. Dresser Industries Inc (1984), Harrington v. DeVito (1981)
22 federal appellate · 1 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 Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Hurn v. Oursler · Maternally Yours, Inc. v. Your Maternity Shop, Inc. · Fixa v. Heilberg · White v. Maryland
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.
“(D)iscretion is abused only where no reasonable man would take the view adopted by the trial court. If reasonable men could differ as to the propriety of the action taken by the trial court, then it cannot be said that the trial court abused its discretion.' Delno v. Market St. Ry. Co., 9 Cir., 124 F.2d 965, 967 (1942).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus the only question before this court is whether the district court abused its discretion in refusing to exercise (pendent) jurisdiction....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the 'more liberal viewpoint' which holds two claims 'related' for purposes of Section 1338(b) if they have a so-called 'factual nucleus.'”
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.