Darlyne Parmelee and Frank Parmelee v. E. A. Ackerman, AKA Ada Ackerman, Dba the House of Charm Studios’s Empirical Analysis
252 F.2d 721 · 1958
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2010
13 federal appellate ·
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 McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Bell v. Preferred Life Assurance Society · Vance v. W. A. Vandercook Co. · Baltimore Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And it is settled that, in ascertaining the amount in controversy for jurisdictional purposes, `where the law gives the rule, the legal cause of action, and not the plaintiff's demand, must be regarded.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * the question remains whether it is apparent to a legal certainty from the complaint that he could not recover, in addition, sufficient punitive damages to make up the requisite $3,000.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whenever it appears by suggestion of the parties or otherwise that the court lacks jurisdiction of the subject matter, the court shall dismiss the action.”
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.