Gibson v. Jeffers’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.2d 216 · 1973
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Adams v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance (2000), Watson v. Blankinship (1994)
14 federal appellate · 12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on Hall v. Beals · Gibbs v. Buck · Nelson v. Keefer · Jaconski v. Avisun Corp. · Lee v. Durango Music
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although allegations in the complaint need not be specific or technical in nature, sufficient facts must be alleged to convince the district court that recoverable damages will bear a reasonable relation to the minimum jurisdictional floor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When dismissal for lack of jurisdictional amount also constitutes a decision on the merits, the court should be even more reluctant to dismiss the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $50,000, exclusive of interest and costs.”
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.