Ball v. Renner’s Empirical Analysis
54 F.3d 664 · 1995
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 31 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Barbara Sheridan v. Ei Dupont De Nemours and Company Jacques Amblard (1996), U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. AIC Security Investigations, Ltd. (1995)
41 federal appellate · 31 district · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 29 U.S.C. § 630 (§ 11 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley 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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he most common response to a pretrial disposition of federal claims has been to dismiss the state law claim or claims without prejudice — that is the seminal teaching of United Mine Workers v. Gibbs, 383 U.S. 715 , 726, 86 S.Ct. 1130 , 1139, 16 L.Ed.2d 218 (1966),....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Notions of comity and federalism demand that a state court try its own lawsuits, absent compelling reasons to the contrary.”
2 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.