USM Corp. v. GKN Fasteners Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
578 F.2d 21 · 1978
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably In re American Colonial Broadcasting Corp. (1985), Miguel v. Country Funding Corp. (2002)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 9 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · United States v. Robinson · Cobbledick v. United States · Freeman v. Bee Machine Co. · Environmental Protection Agency v. Brown
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 15 is not to be viewed as enlarging or restricting federal jurisdiction. The doctrine of relating back in time to the original pleadings does not affect the jurisdiction of the district court here in any manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 15 is not to be viewed as enlarging or restricting federal jurisdiction.”
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.