Lindy v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
501 F.2d 1367 · 1974
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 23 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably Trans-Bay Engineers and Builders, Inc. v. Carla A. Hills, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1976), Northeast Department ILGWU Health & Welfare Fund v. Teamsters Local Union No. 229 Welfare Fund (1985)
33 federal appellate · 23 district ·
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 12 U.S.C. § 1702 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on T. B. Harms Company v. Edward Eliscu and Ross Jungnickel, Inc. · Ivy Broadcasting Co. v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Getty Oil Company Eastern Operations) v. Ruckelshaus · McFaddin Express, Inc. v. Adley Corp.
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action arises under the laws of the United States if and only if the complaint seeks a remedy expressly granted by a federal law or if it requires the construction of a federal statute or a distinctive policy of a federal statute requires the application of federal legal principles for its disposition.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he fact that a contract is subject to federal regulation does not, in itself, demonstrate that Congress meant that all aspects of its performance or nonperformance are to be governed by federal law rather than by the state law applicable to similar contracts in businesses not under federal regulation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any court of competent jurisdiction, State or Federal.”
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.