Alexander v. Electronic Data Systems Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
13 F.3d 940 · 1994
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Thomas Coyne Jr and Timothy Hagan on Behalf of the State of Ohio and All Ohio Taxpayers v. The American Tobacco Company (1999), Tolton v. American Biodyne, Inc. (1995)
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There can be no fraudulent joinder unless it be clear that there can be no recovery under the law of the state on the cause alleged or on the facts in view of the law.... One or the other at least would be required before it could be said that there was no real intention to get a joint judgment, and that there was no colorable ground for so claiming.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“all disputed questions of fact and ambiguities in the controlling... state law in favor of the non removing party.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the plaintiff is the master of his complaint”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.