Mutual Life Ins. v. Champlin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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

1. ““That in any suit oí a civil nature, at law or in equity, now pending or hereafter brought in any state court, where the matter in dispute exceeds, etc. * * * or in which there shall he a controversy between citizens of different states, * " * either party may remove said suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district. And when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different stales,” etc.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Cilley · Garner v. Second Nat. Bank of Providence

2. ““It would be a gross anomaly to construe a statute in such a way as to mean that a controversy which, when joined with another controversy not removable at all, would be sufficient to remove both at the instance of a single defendant, yet should not itself be removable in the same manner when standing alone. Such a construction would make the removability of a suit and the manner of removing it under the second clause depend, not on the character of the removable controversy, but upon its being joined with a controversy not in itself removable at all. It is not credible that any such anomaly should have been intended, and none such should be created by construction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hunter v. Conrad