Smith v. Southern Pac. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
187 F.2d 397 · 1951
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Bobby Jones Garden Apartments, Inc. v. Suleski (1968), Ritchey v. Upjohn Drug Co. (1998)
12 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Wilson v. Republic Iron & Steel Co. · Pullman Co. v. Jenkins · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Cockrell · Alabama Great Southern Railway Co. v. Thompson · Wecker v. National Enameling & Stamping 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But this is not the test in removal cases. The only question we have to determine is whether the complaints evidence a real intention to secure a joint judgment, and colorable ground for it was shown as the record stood when the causes were removed from the state court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a doubtful question of state law ... should be tried in the state court and not determined 'in removal proceedings”); Hartley v. CSX Transp., Inc., 187 F.3d 422 , 425 (4th Cir. 1999) (explaining that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the pleadings may be deemed amended by evidence introduced at the hearing.”
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.