Roe v. O'Donohue’s Empirical Analysis
38 F.3d 298 · 1994
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 21 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Murphy Brothers, Inc. v. Michetti Pipe Stringing, Inc. (1999), Whitaker v. American Telecasting, Inc. (2001)
18 federal appellate · 21 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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1441A · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 28 U.S.C. § 1446 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447
Relies on Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill · Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets · Healy Nh v. Ratta · Swain v. Pressley · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Martin
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A petition for removal fails unless all defendants join it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[accordingly, we hold that the 30 days commences when the defendant, or its authorized agent, comes into possession of a copy of the complaint whether or not the delivery complies with the requirements of “service.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant cannot string things out by refusing to accept mail delivery, waiting for service in hand, and then waiting another 30 days to remove. Once the defendant possesses a copy of the complaint, it must decide promptly in which court it wants to proceed. Indeed, the time may start even earlier: some courts have held that the 30 days runs from the first defendant’s receipt of the complaint, compare Getty Oil, 841 F.2d at 1262-63 with McKinney v. Maryland [sic] Community College, 955 F.2d 924, 926-28 (4th Cir. 1992), 8 but we need not decide today whether this is correct.”
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.