Wheeler v. Shoemaker’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Woods v. Holy Cross Hospital (1979), Beatty v. Akron City Hospital (1981)
9 federal appellate · 8 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1652 (Rules of Decision Act)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Hanna v. Plumer · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Bates v. State Bar
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that reference to the panel so established amounts to little more than furnishing the state court an opportunity to pass upon the claim initially. To refer the action to a panel appointed by the state court, therefore, is contrary to the congressional grant of diversity jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The laws of the several states, except where the Constitution or treaties of the United States or Acts of Congress otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in civil actions in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“affirmative countervailing (federal) considerations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edelson v. Soricelli
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.