Firemen's Insurance Co. of Newark v. Robbins Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
288 F.2d 349 · 1961
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Willingham v. Morgan (1969), Great Plains Trust Company v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co (2002)
29 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Galloway v. United States · Antoinette Kinney v. Columbia Savings Loan Association · Griffin Lumber Co. v. Harper · Reuter v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. · Burcham v. J. P. Stevens & Co.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d)efective allegations of jurisdiction may be amended, upon terms, in the trial or appellate courts.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“We are forced to the conclusion that if the jury accepted as true, as we must assume it did, all of the testimony sworn to touching on observable facts, all this would show would be that the occurrence could have been caused by a slide. We do not think that all of such proof warrants the conclusion that it did so occur, since from the same proof the occurrence can, with equal probability, be attributed to other causes. As stated in the Alabama case, Griffin Lumber Co. v. Harper [247 Ala. 616, 25 So.2d 505], supra, `the evidence, it is without selective application to either of the theories of causation, and, therefore, they remain conjectures only.' 20 "It follows, therefore, that at the conclusion of the presentation of evidence, the defendant was entitled to a directed verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Petitioner further shows that the plaintiff, Robbins Coal Company, Inc., a corporation, at the time of the beginning of said action and ever since has been and still is a citizen of the State of Alabama; that the petitioner, the defendant in this cause, at the beginning of said action and ever since has been and still is a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of New Jersey, and is a citizen of said State; that the controversy in said cause of action is entirely between citizens of different states; * * ””
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.