Sullivan v. Conway’s Empirical Analysis
157 F.3d 1092 · 1998
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Groce v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1999), Carr v. O'Leary (1999)
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
Relies on Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill · Lingle v. Norge Division of Magic Chef, Inc. · Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. · Linn v. United Plant Guard Workers of America, Local 114 · Granberry v. Greer
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is one thing to say that a lawyer is dishonest, or has falsified his credentials, or has lost every case he has tried, or can never file suit within the statute of limitations. These are all readily verifiable statements of fact. But to say that he is a very poor lawyer is to express an opinion that is so difficult to verify or refute that it cannot feasibly be made a subject of inquiry by a jury.... If Conway had said that Sullivan had been or should be disbarred, this would be actionable (if false) because it would imply that Conway knew things about Sullivan that could be shown to be either true or false, since the grounds for disbarment are factual and not mere matters of subjective opinion or surmise.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Until the state judge granted the motion to amend, there was no basis for removal. Until then, the complaint did not state a federal claim. It might never state a claim, since the state judge might deny the motion. The statutory language that we quoted [ 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (b) ] speaks of a motion or other paper that discloses that the case is or has become removable, not that it may sometime in the future become removable if something happens, in this case the granting of a motion by the state judge. When the motion was granted, the case first became removable, and it was promptly removed. It would be fantastic to suppose that the time for removing a case could run before the case became removable....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Until the state judge grant[s] the motion to amend, there [is] no basis for removal. Until then, the complaint d[oes] not state a federal claim. It [may] never state a claim, since the state judge [may] deny the motion. The statutory language that we quoted [ 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (b) ] speaks of a motion or other paper that discloses that the case is or has become removable, not that it may sometime in the future become removable if something happens, in this case the granting of a motion by the state judge.”
1 later decision 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.