Varlack v. SWC Caribbean, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.2d 171 · 1977
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 22 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Aslanidis v. United States Lines, Inc. (1993), Singletary v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (2001)
53 federal appellate · 22 district · 15 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Grunenthal v. Long Island Rail Road · McWeeney v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Craig v. United States
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a mistake concerning the identity of the proper party.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as generally understood and applied in the United States”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“caption with a party's real name amounts to”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Celeste R. Deary, in No. 83-3408 v. Three Un-Named Police Officers, John Doe, Richard Roe & Jone Snow Department of Public Safety, F.B.I. Agent Ray Patton, & Govt. Of the V.I., Celeste R. Deary, in No. 83-3408 v. United States of America. Celeste R. Deary v. Three Un-Named Police Officers, John Doe, Richard Roe & Jone Snow Department of Public Safety, F.B.I. Agent Ray Patton, & Govt. Of the V.I. Appeal of Government of the Virgin Islands, in 83-3409 · Britt v. Arvanitis
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.