Aaron v. Mahl’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.3d 659 · 2008
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2025
11 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1335
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Hanson v. Denckla · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · The Rio Grande · Apostol v. Gallion
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course, the claims of some interplead-ed parties will ultimately be determined to be without merit. That, however, is the very purpose of the proceeding and it would make little sense in terms either of protecting the stakeholder or of doing justice expeditiously to dismiss one possible claimant because. another possible claimant asserts the claim of the first is without merit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the notice pleading standard, of course, a complaint need not contain legal theories.”
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.