Pampillonia v. RJR Nabisco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
138 F.3d 459 · 1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Briarpatch Limited Lp v. Phoenix Pictures Inc (2004), Whitaker v. American Telecasting, Inc. (2001)
6 federal appellate · 17 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on Wm. Passalacqua Builders, Inc. v. Resnick Developers South, Inc. · Boyer v. Snap-On Tools Corp. · Cabalceta v. Standard Fruit Co. · Frank W. Parks and John Patterson v. The New York Times Company · American Protein Corp. v. AB Volvo
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“effected to defeat diversity, the defendant must demonstrate, by clear and convincing evidence, either that there has been outright fraud committed in the plaintiff's pleadings, or that there is no possibility, based on the pleadings, that the plaintiff can state a cause of action against the non-diverse defendant in state court. 45 Id. at 461.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] plaintiff may not defeat a federal court's diversity jurisdiction and a defendant's right of removal by merely joining as defendants parties with no real connection with the controversy.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'all factual and legal issues must be resolved in favor of the plaintiff.'”
4 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.