Wiggins v. Kimberly-Clark Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
March 2018
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Foman v. Davis · Directv, Inc. v. Treesh · Miller v. Calhoun County
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the claims raised against the new party must arise from the same transaction as the claims in the original complaint[;] [2] the new party must not now be prejudiced by having to defend the suit[;] [a]nd [3] the new party must have had actual or constructive knowledge that it would have been a defendant in the action “but for a mistake concerning the proper party’s identity” within the time for service set out in Rule 4(m).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'knew or should have known' that he would bring the claims against them, he failed to establish that his lack of knowledge of their identities was due to a 'mistake' as the Rule requires”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. TC Reiner v. Canale
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.