Unique Concepts, Inc. v. Manuel’s Empirical Analysis
930 F.2d 573 · 1991
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Scholes v. Lehmann (1995), Channell v. Citicorp National Services, Inc. (1996)
12 federal appellate · 6 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. § 1295 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 28 U.S.C. § 1631
Relies on Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. · Harbor Insurance v. Continental Bank Corp. · Clark v. Universal Builders, Inc. · Kennedy Pf v. Wright
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the district judge had used Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b) to separate the [state-law] claims from the patent claims, then [plaintiff] would have a better argument. That final decision really would depend wholly on § 1332 [for jurisdiction].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“need not decide whether Rule 54(b) can be used to direct an appeal to a particular circuit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“came, in part, from (a well-pleaded complaint under) § 1338”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.