Span-Eng Associates v. Weidner’s Empirical Analysis
771 F.2d 464 · 1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2018
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1407
Relies on Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Landis v. North American Co. · Kerotest Mfg Co v. C-O-Two Fire Equipment Co · Weatherford v. Bursey
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The actual filing of reseller suits by MAI would constitute a misuse of litigation in the nature of vexatious and oppressive foreign suits which would be brought as a continuing part of the pattern.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when an injunction sought in one federal proceeding would interfere with another federal proceeding, ... such injunctions should be granted only in the most unusual cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“these precautions are of particular importance where, as here, restraints on other courts are contemplated.”
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.