Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
797 federal appellate · 745 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,736 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996), Kontrick v. Ryan (2004)
797 federal appellate · 745 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedGeraldine Kroger, Administratrix of the Estate of James D. Kroger, Deceased v. Owen Equipment & Erection Company, a Nebraska Corporation (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1359 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Monroe v. Pape · American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn
Cited together with United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Aldinger v. Howard · Finley v. United States · American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · Zahn v. International Paper Co.
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 3,736 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress in [that statute] has ... expressly or by implication negated”
126 later decisions quote this exact passage“whose rights might be irretrievably lost unless he could assert them in an ongoing action in a federal court.”
54 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) The district court shall have original jurisdiction of all civil actions where the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $75,000, exclusive of interest and costs, and is between— (1) Citizens of different States ....”
9 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.