Balazik’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
23 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably No. 94-3025 (1995), Michaels v. State of NJ (1996)
23 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 Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Thermtron Products, Inc. v. Hermansdorfer · Perez v. Ledesma
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree that the failure of all defendants to remove creates a defect in removal procedure within the meaning of § 1447(c). We would have been required to resolve the issue of our review on that basis, had the district court so held. However, as earlier noted, ... the district court did not rule on a § 1447(c) ground. Thus, the bar to appellate review commanded by § 1447(c) and § 1447(d) is inapplicable in light of the district court’s ground of decision. ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“non-joining defendant is an unknown or nominal party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Generally. — A defendant or defendants desiring to remove any civil action from a State court shall file in the district court of the United States for the district and division within which such action is pending a notice of removal signed pursuant to Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and containing a short and plain statement of the grounds for removal, together with a copy of all process, pleadings, and orders served upon such defendant or defendants in such action.”
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.