Hagan v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
570 F.3d 146 · 2009
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Shelton v. Bledsoe (2015), Turley v. Gaetz (2010)
10 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1913 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · O'Shea v. Littleton · Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto Co. · National Ass'n of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Persons ... may be joined in one action as defendants if: (A) any right to relief is asserted against them jointly, severally, or in the alternative with respect to or arising out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences; and (B) any question of law or fact common to all defendants will arise in the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Supreme Court and this Court have repeatedly held that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, like any other statute, should be given their plain meaning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would effectively ... create excessive pressure to settle, or reach a novel or unsettled question of law.”
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.