Hugh M. Matchett v. Ruth A. Wold’s Empirical Analysis
818 F.2d 574 · 1987
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc. v. PPR Realty, Inc. (2000), Hemmings v. Barian (1987)
14 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Bacon v. Rives · 78 Ill. 2d 217 - Rhoades v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. · Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. City of Sheboygan Falls · Kanzelberger v. Kanzelberger · Baker v. Baker
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The addition to a lawsuit of a purely nominal party-the holder of the stakes of the dispute between the plaintiff and the original defendant--does not affect diversity jurisdiction.”
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.