Vest v. Waring’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2006
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 22 (§ 12 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 6 (§ 6 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 42 U.S.C. § 201 (ADAMHA Reorganization Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 241 · 42 U.S.C. § 289F
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Hanson v. Denckla · Butz v. Economou · Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The “outer perimeter” of official’s federal employment has traditionally been broadly construed: “The Supreme Court has declared that, with respect to immunity, jurisdiction [of a federal employee to act] ought to be defined broadly to include acts having more or less a connection with the general matters com mitted by law to the official’s supervision. In other words, an act is within the official’s jurisdiction if it is not manifestly or palpably beyond his authority.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a civil action wherein jurisdiction is not founded solely on diversity of citizenship may be brought only in the judicial district where all defendants reside, or in which the claim arose....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“All pleadings and affidavits introducing evidence relating to jurisdictional facts are to be construed in the light most favorable to the plaintiff”
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.