Sinclair v. Soniform, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
935 F.2d 599 · 1991
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. Teleconcepts, Inc. (1995), 962 F. Supp. 450 - In Re Prudential Insurance Co. of America Sales Practices Litigation (1997)
23 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 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. § 1333 · 28 U.S.C. § 1367
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · McClellan v. Carland · Foremost Insurance v. Richardson · Sisson v. Ruby
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) or as expressly provided otherwise by Federal statute, in any civil action of which the district courts have original jurisdiction, the district courts shall have supplemental jurisdiction over all other claims that are so related to claims in the action within such original jurisdiction that they form part of the same ease or controversy under Article III of the United States Constitution. Such supplemental jurisdiction shall include claims that involve the joinder or intervention of additional claims.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“saving to suitors in all cases all other remedies to which they are otherwise entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“possibility that commercial vessels would be diverted to respond”
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.