Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably 246 F. Supp. 2d 646 - Zermeno v. McDonnell Douglas Corp. (2003), Taylor Pipeline Construction, Inc. v. Directional Road Boring, Inc. (2006)
1 district ·
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 Mann v. Koob · Continental Airlines, Inc. v. Zimmerman · El Chico Corp. v. Poole · Cavallini v. State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance · Otis Engineering Corp. v. Clark
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o prove their allegation of fraudulent joinder [the removing parties] must demonstrate that there is no possibility that [plaintiff] would be able to establish a cause of action against [the joined party] in state court. In evaluating fraudulent joinder claims, we must initially resolve all disputed questions of fact and all ambiguities in the controlling law in favor of the non-removing party. We are then to determine whether that party has any possibility of recovery against the party whose joinder is questioned.”
2 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.