Garner v. Wolfinbarger’s Empirical Analysis
433 F.2d 117 · 1970
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Roofing & Sheet Metal Services, Inc. v. La Quinta Motor Inns, Inc. (1982), In re Volkswagen of America, Inc. (2008)
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Hoffman v. Blaski · Collett Kitpatrick v. Texas and Pacific Railway Co · Continental Grain Company v. The Fbl-585 · Scott Paper Co. v. McAllister Lighterage Line, Inc. · United States v. National City Lines, Inc.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)n the voluminous litigation over transfer orders, only a few litigants have surmounted the formidable obstacles and secured the writ (of mandamus).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that § 1292(b) review is inappropriate for challenges to a judge's discretion in granting or denying transfer under § 1404(a),”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be of the opinion that such order involves a controlling question of law as to which there is substantial ground for difference of opinion and that an immediate appeal from the order may materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.