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← 641 FAPPX 545 - Wiggins v. Kimberly-Clark Corp.

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.

  1. “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
  2. “'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 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.