Welch v. Folsom’s Empirical Analysis
925 F.2d 666 · 1991
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably McGuckin v. Smith (1992), Ciralsky v. Central Intelligence Agency (2004)
41 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Neitzke v. Williams · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Catlin v. United States · United States v. Robinson
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the plaintiff ... elects to stand on the dismissed complaint, however, we have held that the order of dismissal [without prejudice] is final and appealable”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he officers of the court shall issue and serve all process, and perform all duties in [ifp] cases”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Byrd v. Pw Stone · Young v. Quinlan“is jurisdictional, and cannot be extended in the discretion of the district court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gustav A. Adams Andrew F. Dopkins and Robert Malcolm, Deceased, by His Lillian Malcolm v. Trustees of the New Jersey Brewery Employees' Pension Trust Fund Local Union 843, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Falstaff Brewing Corporation and Joseph M. Byrne Co., a Corporation of the State of New Jersey (Newark New Jersey District Civil No. 76-01931) Bruno Michota Walter Lemke Abraham Gellman Lawrence Balback Bolly Bonk William Dunne Bernard Kosciewicz Siegfried Milchram Howard Sears Stephen Gardzinski Harry Wolf Bruno Dziedzic William Riedel Salvatore Guarneri Samuel Monto Fermin Loma Vincent Sadowski Stanley Kiesnowski Anthony Bellina Frank Pavolonis William Roesch Michael Duda Edward Strittmatter Frederick Hubner Peter Rudy Harold Wanthouse Joseph Duffy Joseph Coyle Grace Green, Widow of Harold Green, Deceased v. Anheuser-Busch, Incorporated, (Budweiser) P. Ballantine & Sons Pabst Brewing Company Falstaff Brewing Corporation Investors Funding Corporation Rheingold Breweries, Inc. The New Jersey Brewery Employees' Pension Trust Fund Henry T. Hamilton Herbert v. Johnson Frank A. Jackiewicz Frank Sullivan Herbert Heilmann, Jr. Henry Tchorzewski Benno Merker and Arthur Spinello, as Trustees of the New Jersey Brewery Employees' Pension Trust Fund (Newark New Jersey District Civil No. 77-02543) Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ("Pbgc") · Jeffrey Albright v. Daniel A. Virtue
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.