Molnar v. National Broadcasting Co.’s Empirical Analysis
231 F.2d 684 · 1956
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Craig v. United States (1969), Preaseau v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (1979)
42 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1653
Relies on Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets · City of Indianapolis v. Chase Nat Bank of City of New York · Puerto Rico v. Russell & Co. · Mullen v. Torrance
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the identity of defendants were known so that the pleader could state that they were citizens of Delaware, she could also state their names and allege what part each had in the management and control of the stairway. But, if the allegations that they are citizens of Delaware be, as on the face of the complaint it is, unfounded guesswork, the jurisdiction of the court is not established____ It is clear, in the absence of this identification or connection or name, that the allegations of citizenship in Delaware is illusory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Were the courts to allow . . . complaints [alleging “Doe” defendants] to be filed unchallenged, a great opportunity for confusion would arise. See Roth v. Davis, 9 Cir., 231 F.2d 681 . The allegations, if suffered to remain in the complaint might cause apparent technical difficulties later. Delay in bringing the cause to issue and trial is the immediate consequence. Molnar v. National Broadcasting Company, 231 F.2d 684, 687 (9th Cir. 1956).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It was impossible for the court to say that defendants thus joined were not indispensable from the face of the complaint. At the stage where the action of the court took place, the matter must have been viewed upon the allegations of the complaint alone. Allegations founding jurisdiction of a federal court must be precise.””
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.