Acton Co Inc of Massachusetts v. Bachman Foods Inc’s Empirical Analysis
668 F.2d 76 · 1982
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 43 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Naartex Consulting Corp. v. Watt (1983), Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Dingwell (1989)
26 federal appellate · 43 district · 2 state decisions
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 · Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger · Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson · Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc. · Strawbridge v. Curtiss
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.In proceeding with its inquiry into both necessity and indispensability, a district court should keep in mind the policies that underlie Rule 19, “including, the public interest in preventing multiple and repetitive litigation, the interest .of the present parties in obtaining complete and effective relief in a single • ac-: tion, and the interest of absentees in avoiding the possible prejudicial effect of deciding the case without them.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]irst, to what extent a judgment rendered in the person’s absence might be prejudicial to the person or those already parties; second, the extent to which, by protective provisions in the judgment, by the shaping of relief, or other measures, the prejudice can be lessened or avoided; third, whether a judgment rendered in the person’s absence will be adequate; fourth, whether the plaintiff will have an adequate remedy if the action is dismissed for nonjoinder.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an action seeking recission of a contract must be dismissed unless all parties to the contract, and others having a substantial interest in it, can be joined.”
3 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.