Ridder Bros. v. Blethen’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.2d 395 · 1944
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Barbara Ann Hatridge v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, Gene Rodney Hatridge, Barbara Ann Hatridge and Herman L. Reid v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company (1969), Sanchez v. Monumental Life Insurance (1996)
17 federal appellate · 2 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. § 41
Relies on McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Gibbs v. Buck · Thomson v. Gaskill · Healy Nh v. Ratta · KVOS, Inc. v. Associated Press
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the value of the thing to be accomplished (is) equal to the dollar minimum of the jurisdictional requirement to anyone concerned in the action, then jurisdiction (is) satisfied.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he value of the thing sought to be accomplished by the action may relate to either or any party to the action”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the value of the particular and limited thing sought to be accomplished by the action.”
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.