Shane v. Conlisk’s Empirical Analysis
583 F.2d 965 · 1978
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2014
3 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
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · United States v. New York Telephone Co. · United States v. Mazurie · Mullaney v. Anderson · Confederation of Police v. Conlisk
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The addition of these two parties . . . can in no wise embarrass the defendant. Nor would their earlier joinder have in any way affected the course of the litigation. To dismiss the present petition and require . . . plaintiffs to start over in the (state court) would entail needless waste and runs counter to effective judicial administration. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Under this rule, it has been held that a party can be added sua sponte by the court after judgment for remedial purposes. Reichenberg v. Nelson, 310 F.Supp. 248 (D.Neb.1970). Indeed, the Supreme Court added parties under Rule 21 on appeal in Mullaney v. Anderson ....’’ 583 F.2d at 966 .”
2 later decisions 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.