Rogers v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
431 F.2d 16 · 1970
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2015 · most notably Pullman-Standard v. Swint (1982), Baker v. Stuart Broadcasting Co. (1977)
26 federal appellate · 1 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 Mecom v. Fitzsimmons Drilling Co. · Kramer v. Caribbean Mills, Inc. · Williamson v. Gilmer · McSparran v. Weist · Lester v. McFaddon
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the appointment of a representative of a living person ... who undertakes no duties nor obligations to his [or her] ward or beneficiary save those incident to the institution of a lawsuit, falls within the proscription of Sec. 1359 and is insufficient to invoke federal jurisdiction on the basis of diversity of citizenship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bettin v. Nelson“A determination of citizenship for purposes of diversity is a mixed question of law and fact, but mainly fact, which may not be set aside by an appellate court unless clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dunlap v. Buchanan“had acquired no citizenship in Colorado and that he remained domiciled in and a citizen of Nebraska * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dunlap v. Buchanan
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.