Lee v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 303 · 1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2005
8 federal appellate · 6 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)
Relies on Lehman Brothers v. Schein · Bellotti v. Baird · Clay v. Sun Ins. Office Ltd. · Elkins v. Moreno · Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Webb
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.
“afford the [Supreme Court of Michigan] the opportunity to address a not insubstantial issue under the law of that State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“saves time, energy, and resources and helps build a cooperative judicial federalism.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“avoid the hazards of attempting to forecast how [Michigan] courts might rule,”
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.