Larkin v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
41 F.3d 387 · 1994
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 15 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Trimble v. Asarco, Inc. (2000), Onepoint Solutions, LLC v. Borchert (2007)
12 federal appellate · 15 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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Zahn v. International Paper Co. · Burnett v. Griffith · Zahn v. International Paper Co. · Simon Zunamon v. W. G. Brown, J. P. Brown, Sr., and J. E. (Doc) Brown
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although punitive damages are included in the amount of [sic] controversy, the existence of the required amount must be supported by competent proof. Indeed, when determining the amount in controversy, a claim for punitive damages is to be given closer scrutiny, and the trial judge accorded greater discretion, than a claim for actual damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a complaint that alleges the jurisdictional amount in good faith will suffice to confer jurisdiction, but the complaint will be dismissed if it `appear[s] to a legal certainty that the claim is really for less than the jurisdictional amount.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kopp v. A Kopp“[i]n determining the amount in controversy pursuant to a motion to dismiss, answers to interrogatories serve as the equivalent of affidavits to either support or defeat diversity jurisdiction.”
1 later decision 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.