Morda v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
865 F.2d 782 · 1989
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably United States v. Frost (1997), Tolton v. American Biodyne, Inc. (1995)
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Pereira v. United States · American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Hullum v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the federal district court would have had original jurisdiction of the case had it been filed in that court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It would be particularly difficult to fault plaintiffs for a lack of prefiling inquiry when, as here, defendants have refused plaintiffs access to material information that would bear on certain allegations made in the complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Forbes v. Eagleson“is eminently sensible, and conservative of judicial economy; it prevents a party who waits until after he loses in the court below to object to the jurisdictional defect from getting a second bite at the apple.”
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.