Steven Goldsmith v. Major General James W. Sutherland’s Empirical Analysis
426 F.2d 1395 · 1970
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Manual De J. Gomez v. Jerry v. Wilson, Chief of Police (1973), Amen v. City of Dearborn (1976)
28 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Bell v. Hood · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Lockerty v. Phillips · Fixa v. Heilberg
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all civil actions wherein the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $10,000, exclusive of interest and costs, and arises under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Betit““(I)n injunction actions, the amount in controversy is not the amount that the plaintiff might recover at law, but rather the value of the right to be protected or the extent of the injury to be prevented.” Id. at 1398 .”
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.