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Block’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

272
cited by 272 later decisions
2
states following
December 2023
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 18 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 272 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Monahan v. New York City Department of Corrections (2000), Kaluczky v. City of White Plains (1995)

9 federal appellate · 18 district · 2 state decisions

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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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Ivy v. Myers · State Teachers Retirement Board v. Fluor Corp.

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 272 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(i) require the opponent to expend significant additional resources to conduct discovery and prepare for trial; (ii) significantly delay the resolution of the dispute; or (iii) prevent the plaintiff from bringing a timely action in another jurisdiction.”
    11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Generally, a party is allowed to amend its pleadings in the absence of a showing of”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “shall be freely given when justice so requires.”
    3 later decisions 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.