Thomson v. Gaskill’s Empirical Analysis
315 U.S. 442 · 1942
Citation profile
235 federal appellate · 313 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,172 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Hishon v. King & Spalding (1984), Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger (1978)
235 federal appellate · 313 district · 5 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGaskill v. Thomson (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Gibbs v. Buck · Healy Nh v. Ratta · KVOS, Inc. v. Associated Press
Cited together with McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Clark v. Paul Gray, Inc. · KVOS, Inc. v. Associated Press · Land US v. Dollar
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 1,172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a plaintiff's allegations of jurisdictional facts are challenged by the defendant, the plaintiff bears the burden of supporting the allegations by competent proof”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a diversity litigation the value of the 'matter in controversy' is measured not by the monetary result of determining the principle involved, but by its pecuniary consequence to those involved in the litigation.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Aggregation of plaintiffs' claim cannot be made merely because the claims are derived from a single instrument or because the plaintiffs have a community of interest.”
3 later decisions 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.