Rex Morrison Harold Highley v. Allstate Indemnity Company Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
228 F.3d 1255 · 2000
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Smith v. Gte Corporation Gte (2001), Williams v. Best Buy Co. (2001)
31 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
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 Bonner v. City of Prichard · McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Swint v. Chambers County Commission · Zahn v. International Paper Co.
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]ower federal courts are empowered to hear only cases for which there has been a congressional grant of jurisdiction, and once a court determines that there has been no grant that covers a particular case, the court's sole remaining act is to dismiss the case for lack of jurisdiction.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a federal court must inquire sua sponte into the issue whenever it appears that jurisdiction may be lacking.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“enforce a single title or right, in which they have a common and undivided interest,”
3 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.