Louis Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 176 F. Supp. 2d 1236 - Liebau v. Columbia Casualty Co. (2001), 166 F. Supp. 2d 1273 - Dunn v. Gaiam, Inc. (2001)
2 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
Relies on Horton v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Northbrook National Insurance v. Brewer · Fletcher v. Hamlet · Dodson v. Spiliada Maritime Corp. · Brierly v. Alusuisse Flexible Packaging, Inc.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the case stated by the initial pleading is not removable, a notice of removal may be filed within thirty days after receipt by the defendant, through service or otherwise, of a copy of an amended pleading, motion, order or other paper from which it may first be ascertained that the case is one which is or has become removable, except that a case may not be removed on the basis of jurisdiction conferred by section 1332 of this title more than 1 year after commencement of the action.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a lapsed right to remove an initially removable case . . . when the complaint is amended so substantially as to . . . constitute essentially a new lawsuit”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“judicially-created revival exception to the thirty-day requirement.”
1 later decision 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.