Van Dorn v. Huffman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““Whenever a separate and independent claim or cause of action, which would be removable if sued upon alone, is joined with one or more otherwise non-removable claims or causes of action, the entire case may be removed and the district court may determine all issues therein, or, in its discretion, may remand all matters not otherwise within its original jurisdiction.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gianella v. Keels · Aben v. Dallwig

2. “[When] a cause of action not otherwise removable is joined with a removable cause of action, then it behooves the court to determine whether justice may more properly be served by retaining jurisdiction of the entire matter or by remanding to the state courts for their determination those matters which would not be removable if sued upon alone. The Court finds that since this cause was properly removed to this Court and since the cause must be tried by the Court as to one of the defendants, the ends of justice may more properly be served by the Court retaining jurisdiction of the entire matter and determining all of the issues at one trial rather than by imposing upon the plaintiffs the necessity of two separate trials and causing the unnecessary expense of duplicate trials. Van Dorn v. Huffman, supra, at 288 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Andelman v. Getz

3. ““Upon a certification by the Attorney General that the defendant employee was acting within the scope of his employment at the time of the incident out of which the suit arose, any such civil action or proceeding commenced in a State court shall be removed without bond at any time before trial by the Attorney General to the district court of the United States for the district and division embracing the place wherein it is pending and the proceedings deemed a tort action brought against the United States under the provisions of this Title and all references thereto * * *” [Emphasis added.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gianella v. Keels