Washington Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Paterson, Walke & Pratt, P.C.’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 677 · 1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Bank of New York v. First Millennium, Inc. (2010), 462 F. Supp. 2d 457 - Weininger v. Castro (2006)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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
Relies on Nicholas v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Tashire · State of Texas v. State of Florida · Oneida Indian Nation of Wisconsin v. New York
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a handy tool to protect a stakeholder from multiple liability and the vexation of defending multiple claims to the same fund.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a real and reasonable fear of double liability or ... conflicting claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Persons having claims against the plaintiff may be joined as defendants and required to interplead when their claims are such that the plaintiff is or may be exposed to double or multiple liability. It is not ground for objection to the joinder that the claims of the several claimants or the titles on which their claims depend do not have a common origin or are not identical but are adverse to and independent of one another, or that the plaintiff avers that the plaintiff is not liable in whole or in part to any or all of the claimants.”
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.