Williams v. Ragnone’s Empirical Analysis
147 F.3d 700 · 1998
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2017
9 federal appellate · 8 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. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1443 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Caterpillar Inc. v. Williams · Quackenbush California Insurance Commissioner v. Allstate Insurance Co · City of Chicago v. International College of Surgeons · Gaming Corporation of America v. Dorsey & Whitney Dorsey & Whitney
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny civil action brought in a State court of which the district courts of the United States have original jurisdiction, may be removed by the defendant or the defendants, to the district court of the United States for the district and division embracing the place where such action is pending.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The weight of judicial authority supports the conclusion that 'a Congressional grant of concurrent jurisdiction in a statute does not imply that removal is prohibited.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“entire case was properly removed, and the district court was therefore without discretion to remand it.”
1 later decision 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.