Menz’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2023
2 district · 2 state decisions
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 Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Patricia Mayes v. Stanley Rapoport · Stevenson v. Union Pacific Railroad · Brown v. Hamid · Delbrel v. Doenges Bros. Ford, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“indicat[es] a desire to suppress the truth.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if there is a `colorable' cause of action that is, if the state law might impose liability on the resident defendant under the facts alleged then there is no fraudulent joinder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] proper review should give paramount consideration to the reasonableness of the basis underlying the state claim.”
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.