Gottlieb v. Vaicek’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1992
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1404
Relies on Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Schutten v. Shell Oil Co. · Evergreen Park Nursing & Convalescent Home, Inc. v. American Equitable Assurance Co. · Eikel v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Morrison v. New Orleans Public Service Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rather the courts are urged to consider whether the absentee would be 'adversely affected in a practical sense, and if so, would the prejudice be immediate and serious, or remote and minor?'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“courts must refrain from taking a view either too broad or too narrow in determining 'prejudicial' effect of a judgment. The watchwords of Rule 19 are 'pragmatism' and 'practicality.'”
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.