Ingram v. Sterling’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1974
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1446 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets · Chicago Ri Pr Co v. Stude · 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To do so would make the removability of an action into the federal court dependent upon the practice with respect to counterclaims in use in the particular state wherein the federal court happened to be sitting and would soon create forty-eight different tests of removability. Each federal court would be called upon to decide whether the particular counterclaims with which it is faced would be described as `compulsory' or `permissive' under the local state practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Bowman
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.