Briscoe’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 673 F. Supp. 2d 358 - Various v. Various (2009), In re Le Blanc (2008)
3 district · 1 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Catlin v. United States · Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Cheney v. United States District Court for District of Columbia
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is even a possibility that a state court would find that the complaint states a cause of action”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intends in good faith to prosecute the action”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in applying the fraudulent joinder doctrine, 'the district court must focus on the plaintiff's complaint at the time the petition for removal was filed.'”
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.