Herrington v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While true that the authorities are uniform to the effect that, granting an existent jurisdiction at the time of the filing of the action, no subsequent change in the condition of the parties will divest the Court of jurisdiction, this is not the situation here. No change has taken place in the citizenship of L. J. Massart, against whom plaintiff Herrington elected to file his action, but a change in the situation as respects diversity of citizenship, upon which the jurisdiction of the Court was expressly based, has been effected, with the result that jurisdiction no longer exists.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 63 F. Supp. 705 - Saunders v. Baltimore & O. R. Co.

2. “If [the original plaintiff] thought that there existed a cause of action in his favor against the [third party defendant], the State Courts were open to him for its assertion ; it may be said in passing, that the record herein shows that plaintiff . . . had actually already brought suit against the [third party defendant] in the District Court of the State”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Drickersen v. Drickersen