Barnes v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1998
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. § 1446
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Martin · Railway Company v. Ramsey · Kirby v. American Soda Fountain 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * *, in determining the amount in controversy in actions sought to be removed, the Court to which removal is sought determines the question solely by looking to the amount in good faith prayed for as damnum in the complaint * * *.” (Citing St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Co. v. Red Cab Co., supra.)”
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.