Financial General Bankshares, Inc. v. Metzger’s Empirical Analysis
680 F.2d 768 · 1982
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 29 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Duckworth v. Franzen (1985), Lashawn A. v. Barry (1996)
62 federal appellate · 29 district · 9 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 · Hagans v. Lavine · Rosado v. Wyman · Moor v. County of Alameda · Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Assn.
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] federal court should be reluctant to retain pendent jurisdiction over a question for which state jurisprudence gives inadequate guidance.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[njeedless decisions of state law should be avoided both as a matter of comity and to promote justice between the parties, by procuring for them a surer-footed reading of applicable law. Certainly, if the federal claims are dismissed before trial, even though not insubstantial in a jurisdictional sense, the state claims should be dismissed as well.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are such that [the plaintiff] would ordinarily be expected to try them all in one proceeding.”
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.