Carrie Badon’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
13 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Little v. Liquid Air Corp. · Murphy Brothers, Inc. v. Michetti Pipe Stringing, Inc. · American Tobacco Co., Inc. v. Grinnell · Kulalani Ltd. v. Corey
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not ... in the absence of any proof, assume that the nonmoving party could or would prove the necessary facts.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ver since a time many years prior to 1988 we have consistently recognized that diversity removal may be based on evidence outside the pleadings to establish that the plaintiff has no possibility of recovery on the claim or claims asserted against the named resident defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the plaintiff's pleading is pierced and it is shown that as a matter of law there is no reasonable basis for predicting that the plaintiff might establish liability on that claim against the in-state defendant.”
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.