Abernathy v. Tiller’s Empirical Analysis

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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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The Court cannot agree with that construction of the statute on which the jurisdiction of this Court depends herein. 28 U.S.C. § 1441 . There must have been diversity of citizenship between all the respective parties plaintiff and defendant at the time of the filing of the complaint in the state court and at the time of the removal of this action, and the requisite jurisdictional amount in controversy must have been present before the jurisdiction of the state court is ever divested, 28 U.S.C. § 1441 (b), unless the plaintiffs by some affirmative act have abandoned or discontinued the action against the said defendant Mrs. Brown. Stamm v. American Telephone & Telegraph Company, D.C.Mo. (1958), 129 F.Supp. 719, 721 [3, 4]. So long as Mrs. Brown remains a party defendant, the removal of this action, at least, is premature.” (P. 571.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kilpatrick v. Arrow Co.