Viles v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1987
2 federal appellate · 1 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 American Car Foundry Company v. Agnes Kettelhake · 220 F. Supp. 222 - Young Spring & Wire Corp. v. American Guarantee & Liability Insurance · 228 F. Supp. 810 - Lyon v. Illinois Central Railroad Company · 163 F. Supp. 298 - Stone v. Foster · 238 F. Supp. 598 - Squibb-Mathieson International Corporation v. St. Paul Mercury Insurance Company
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 9 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 petition for removal may be filed within thirty days after receipt by the defendant, through service or otherwise, of a copy of an amended pleading, motion, or other paper from which it may first be ascertained that the case is one which is or has become removable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.