Covington v. Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America’s Empirical Analysis
251 F.2d 930 · 1958
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Bobby Jones Garden Apartments, Inc. v. Suleski (1968), Tedder v. F.M.C. Corp. (1979)
23 federal appellate · 8 district · 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 Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · Wilson v. Republic Iron & Steel Co. · Wecker v. National Enameling & Stamping Co. · John Mackay v. Unita Development Company · Ex parte Nebraska
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant or defendants desiring to remove any civil action or criminal prosecution from a State court shall file in the district court of the United States for the district and division within which-such action is pending a notice of removal signed pursuant to Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and containing a short and plain statement of the grounds for removal, together with a copy of all process, pleadings, and orders served upon such defendant or defendants in such action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant or defendants desiring to remove any civil action or criminal prosecution from a State court shall file in the district court of the United States for the district and division within which such action is pending a verified petition containing a short and plain statement of the facts which entitle him or them to removal together with a copy of all process, pleadings and orders served upon him or them in such action, [emphasis added by the court]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'under the law all papers filed and proceedings in this cause in the state court prior to' the removal order 'are properly a part of the record coming to this court' ... if any of them are lacking from the original removal record, they may be later supplied.”
1 later decision 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.