Anderson v. Bowers’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘•Subsection 3 o-f section 039 of Uie Revised Statutes, ns amended by section 2 of tlie net of 18S7, gives tlie right to remove a suit ‘in which there is a controversy between a, citizen of the state in which the suit is brought and a citizen of another state’ to ‘any’ defendant, being such citizen of another state, on account of prejudice or local influence, without reference to the citizenship of other persons who may be parties thereto'. The judicial power of tlie fruited States extends to controversies between citizens of difl'omit states, which includes a ‘case’ in Which controversy exists without reference to the citizenship of the other parties therein; and congress may confer jurisdiction on such controversy, including the case in which it is involved, on the circuit courts, by removal or otherwise.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Haire v. Rome R.