106 F. Supp. 2d 513 - Donovan v. Rothman’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2022
3 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. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 42 U.S.C. § 1320A (§ 1128b of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Caterpillar Inc. v. Williams · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Thompson Ex Rel. Thompson · Smith v. Kansas City Title & Trust Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the state action simply provides the vehicle for the vindication of rights ... and relationships created by federal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“by framing in terms of state law a complaint the real nature of [which] is federal,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cause of action poses a substantial federal question”
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.