Clancy v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
71 F.2d 110 · 1934
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1973
2 federal appellate ·
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 Wilson v. Republic Iron & Steel Co. · Wecker v. National Enameling & Stamping Co. · Farmers' Bank & Trust Co. of Hardinsburg v. Atchison, T. & S. F. RY. Co. · Boyle v. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. · Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Stepp
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fraud here under consideration is simply a purpose to deny the nonresident defendant the right of having his case tried in the jurisdiction to which he would otherwise be entitled by the unwarranted joinder as a codefendant of one against whom the plaintiff knows, or has sufficient reason in law to know, he has no legal ground for suit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It will not be exacted that the action must ultimately succeed, but there must be reasonable ground from the existing state of laws and facts to believe that the cause of action has merit; and it must be stated in good faith.””
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.