Jones v. Knox Exploration Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2 F.3d 181 · 1993
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Meritcare Incorporated v. St Paul Mercury Insurance Company (1999), Advance Watch Company, Limited v. Kemper National Insurance Company, the Travelers Indemnity Company of America, Cross-Appellee (1996)
21 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1653
Relies on St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain · Clark v. Paul Gray, Inc. · Walling v. James V. Reuter, Inc. · Klepper v. First American Bank
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] distinction must be made ... between subsequent events that change the amount in controversy and subsequent revelations that, in fact, the required amount was or was not in controversy at the commencement of the action.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“adduced at trial conclusively show that the plaintiff never had a claim even arguably within the [required] range,' a diversity action must be dismissed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the arbitration costs provided for in the policy should be considered in determining the amount in controversy. Id. at 14-15. We will consider each of these arguments in turn. A. 23 State Farm first argues that the federal courts retain jurisdiction over this matter because, at the time that it filed its complaint, it believed that three $50,000 insurance policies were at issue, totalling $150,000, and subsequent events cannot destroy jurisdiction if jurisdiction was proper when the complaint was filed. It is true that a federal court's jurisdiction ordinarily depends upon”
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.