Carrie Badon’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
11 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Media Production Consultants, Inc. v. Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc. · Jernigan v. Ashland Oil Inc. · Frank W. Parks and John Patterson v. The New York Times Company · Bobby Jones Garden Apartments, Inc. v. Suleski · Burden v. General Dynamics Corp.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[pjlaintiffs appear to argue that any mere theoretical possibility of recovery under local law-no matter how remote or fanciful-suffiees to preclude removal. We reject this contention. As the cited authorities reflect, there must at least be arguably a reasonable basis for predicting that state law will allow recovery in order to preclude a finding of fraudulent joinder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n our prior opinion, we affirmed the district court’s rulings that the removal was timely and that the conspiracy claim against the Louisiana wholesalers was fraudulently joined because there was no reasonable possibility of recovery thereon, (citation omitted). We reaffirm those holdings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“undisputed summary judgment type evidence”
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.