Butner v. Neustadter’s Empirical Analysis
324 F.2d 783 · 1963
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 9 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Somportex Ltd. v. Philadelphia Chewing Gum Corp. (1971), Anderson v. Allstate Insurance (1980)
39 federal appellate · 9 district · 11 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1446
Relies on Duncan v. Gegan · Brill v. Fox · Savell v. Southern Ry. Co. · 103 Cal. App. 2d 496 - Karlein v. Karlein
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“treat everything that occurred in the state court as if it had taken place”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miles v. Paribas · Pappas Mathews““The federal rules apply after removal and ‘neither add to nor abrogate what has been done in the state court prior to removal’ [citation omitted]. The federal court takes the case as it finds it on removal and treats everything that occurred in the state court as if it had taken place in federal court.” Id. at 785 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect ...”
4 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.