Reitz v. Dieter’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2016
1 district · 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1927 · 28 U.S.C. § 2072 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Hj Inc v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company · Hall v. Cole
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven if the [Dragonetti Act, itself,] did not compel the conclusion that the statute is unavailable to civil litigants in federal court, the Court would still reach the same conclusion. [The Dragonetti Act] is a procedural rule applicable in Pennsylvania’s courts. Similar concerns to those addressed by [the Dragonetti Act] are addressed by [Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure], Accordingly, [the Dragonetti Act] has no force or application in federal court where the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure control. Based upon the foregoing considerations, the Court concludes that the defendant has failed to state a claim under [the Dragonetti Act],”
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.