Gaar v. Quirk’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.3d 451 · 1996
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2018
5 federal appellate ·
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 · 28 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on Public Serv. Comm'n of Utah v. Wycoff Co. · Idaho v. Wright · Miami Center Ltd. Partnership v. Bank of New York · Lowe v. Ingalls Shipbuilding, A Division of Litton Systems, Inc. · Aaron v. National Union Fire Insurance
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A petition for a declaratory judgment concerning federal law is not sufficient to create federal jurisdiction; hence, the relevant cause of action must arise under some other federal law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is our duty to raise this issue sua sponte.”
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.