Murphy v. Kodz’s Empirical Analysis
351 F.2d 163 · 1965
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Arango v. Guzman Travel Advisors Corp. (1980), Anderson v. Allstate Insurance (1980)
50 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 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
Relies on Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Hurn v. Oursler
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But at the same time, we recognize that the existence of power to adjudicate a controversy is not always co-extensive with the propriety of its exercise. Where the federal head of jurisdiction has vanished from the case, and there has been no substantial commitment of judicial resources to the nonfederal claims it is, as Judge Merrill of this court has written, akin to ‘making the tail wag the dog’ for the District Court to retain jurisdiction. These considerations give rise to a discretion in the District Court to dismiss the complaint and remand the case to the State Court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) A civil action ... commenced in a State court against any of the following persons may be removed by them to the district court of the United States for the district and division embracing the place where it is pending:- (1) any officer of the United States or any agency thereof.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“plaintiffs subsequent reduction of his claim to less than the jurisdictional amount”
2 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.