Vecchione v. Wohlgemuth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2002
4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · King v. Smith · Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he defendant had its opportunity to have the [jurisdictional] issue heard and to present its position, but chose to admit the allegations of plaintiff’s complaint. Thereafter, it fully participated in the appropriate discovery and pretrial procedures preparatory to trial of the action on the merits____ A defendant may not play fast and loose with the j'udicial machinery and deceive the courts. [ 426 F.Supp. at 1309 ]”
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.