Eubanks v. McCotter’s Empirical Analysis
802 F.2d 790 · 1986
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Brennan v. Stewart (1988), Moore v. Lafayette Life Insurance (2006)
15 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1331 · 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 · Haines v. Kerner · Bell v. Hood · Williamson v. Tucker · Federal Election Commission v. Machinists Non-Partisan Political League
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the basis of federal jurisdiction is intertwined with the plaintiff's federal cause of action, the court should assume jurisdiction over the case and decide it on the merits.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly appears to be immaterial and made solely for the purpose of obtaining jurisdiction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he questions of subject matter jurisdiction and the merits will normally be considered intertwined where the statute provides both the basis of federal court subject matter jurisdiction and the cause of action.”
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.