Abel v. Book’s Empirical Analysis
120 F. 47 · 1903
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
April 1941
most recently cited
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Fletcher v. Hamlet · Roberts v. Pacific & A. Ry. & Nav. 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where, in an action to annul certain conveyances against several defendants, there was no separable controversy, and one of the defendants originally entitled to remove the cause to the federal courts had waived his right by failing to exercise it within the time prescribed, a subsequent joint application for removal could not be granted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Casey v. Baker
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.