State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Tashire’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
291 federal appellate · 117 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,033 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger (1978), Ruhrgas Ag v. Marathon Oil Co. (1999)
291 federal appellate · 117 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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
reviewedKathryn Tashire v. State Farm Fire And Casualty Company (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1335 · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1397 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 2361
Relies on American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Collett Kitpatrick v. Texas and Pacific Railway Co · Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co.
Cited together with United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger · Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co. · Aldinger v. Howard · Strawbridge v. Curtiss
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 1,033 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an all-purpose 'bill of peace' " for "multiparty litigation arising out of a mass tort.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“interpleader, in discharge of its office to protect the fund, should also protect the stakeholder from vexatious and multiple litigation.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action in which the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $5,000,000, exclusive of interest and costs, and is a class action in which (A) any member of a class of plaintiffs is a citizen of a State different from any defendant; (B) any member of a class of plaintiffs is a foreign state or a citizen or subject of a foreign state and any defendant is a citizen of a State; or (C) any member of a class of plaintiffs is a citizen of a State and any defendant is a foreign state or a citizen or subject of a foreign state.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.