Block v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
196 F.2d 930 · 1952
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Washington v. American League of Professional Baseball Clubs (1972), Edwin A. Walker v. Van H. Savell and the Associated Press (1964)
13 federal appellate · 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. § 1446
Relies on General Inv Co v. Lake Shore & M S Ry Co · Freeman v. Bee Machine Co. · Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · Pacific Railroad of Missouri v. Missouri Pacific Ry. Co. And Others. 1 · The People v. Sterling
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As has been frequently stated, the jurisdiction of the federal court on removal is a derivative jurisdiction, and if the state court lacks jurisdiction either of the subject matter or of the parties, the federal court acquires none upon removal.” Block v. Block, 196 F.2d 930 (7th Cir. 1952).”
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.