Kimball v. Florida Bar’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 1305 · 1976
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably United States v. O'Neil (1983), Romero-Barcelo v. Brown (1981)
18 federal appellate · 4 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))
Relies on Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson · Harman v. Forssenius · Kusper v. Pontikes · Sands v. Wainwright · Boles v. Greeneville Housing Authority
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We could not resolve this issue without additional briefs examining each of the factors enumerated in Rule 19, and we would have to remand in any case if we held for [intervenor] on this issue. Therefore, we think it appropriate to remand in the first instance so that ... the district court can determine whether the [intervenor] can or should have been joined under the provisions of Rule 19.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the absence of an indispensable party, the federal courts are no more empowered to render a declaratory judgment than we would be to give affirmative relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the absence of an indispensable party may be raised at any time, even by a reviewing court on its own motion”
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.