Shepard v. Egan’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Edelman v. Jordan · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is difficult, both practically and logistically, to image a court denying a plaintiffs motion to dismiss her own action with prejudice. Could the Court force the plaintiff to continue discovery, or offer evidence? Can or should the Court require plaintiff to litigate a claim when plaintiff herself has attempted to dismiss it? ... Suffice it to say that the Court will not compel plaintiff to pursue a claim that she wishes to dismiss with prejudice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.