Sparks v. Hershey’s Empirical Analysis
661 F.2d 30 · 1981
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Executive Software North America, Inc. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California (1994), No. 94-3025 (1995)
17 federal appellate · 4 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Carey v. Piphus · Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. MacKey · Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Wetzel · Basista v. Weir
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Federal courts have the constitutional power to exercise pendent jurisdiction when the state and federal claims derive from a common nucleus of operative fact, such that the plaintiff would ordinarily be expected to try them all in one judicial proceeding, and when the federal claim has sufficient substance to confer subject matter jurisdiction on the court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e are inclined to believe that the dictates of judicial economy, convenience, fairness to the parties, and comity are better served by recognizing [supplemental] jurisdiction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on review, our role is not to determine how we would have exercised the 'broad discretionary powers to decline pendent jurisdiction,' had we been sitting as district judges. We only determine whether the district court misused that broad power.”
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.