Chicago Ri Pr Co v. Stude’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
187 federal appellate · 67 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 579 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Swint v. Chambers County Commission (1995), County of Allegheny v. Frank Mashuda Co. (1959)
187 federal appellate · 67 district · 13 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on Bell v. Hood · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets · Deckert v. Independence Shares Corp. · Boom Company v. Patterson
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 579 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the purpose of removal, the federal law determines who is plaintiff and who is defendant. It is a question of the construction of the federal statute on removal, and not the state statute.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“legislature may not make a federal district court, a court of original jurisdiction, into an appellate tribunal....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Obviously, such an order is not final and appealable if standing alone.”
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.