Hackney v. Newman Memorial Hospital, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 1069 · 1980
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2006 · most notably United States v. Kingston (1992), Gross v. Hougland (1983)
17 federal appellate · 1 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 Black & White Taxicab & Transfer Co. v. Brown & Yellow Taxicab & Transfer Co. · Kramer v. Caribbean Mills, Inc. · Cirillo v. United States · Williamson v. Gilmer · McSparran v. Weist
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A district court shall not have jurisdiction of a civil action in which any party, by assignment or otherwise, has been improperly or collusively made or joined to invoke the jurisdiction of such court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“real, substantive stake in the litigation”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“immune from challenge, for diversity purposes, an appointment of a fiduciary who has a substantial beneficial interest in the litigation being conducted,”
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.