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Citation profile
8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2025
8 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 Caterpillar Inc. v. Lewis · Jefferson County v. Acker · Beecham v. United States · Transit Casualty Co. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's · Durham v. Lockheed Martin Corp.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ederal courts are to 'resolve all doubts about federal jurisdiction in favor of remand' and are strictly to construe legislation permitting removal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“order .. from which it may first be ascertained that the case is one which is ... removable”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All of the document types listed in § 1446(b) are commonly produced in the course of litigating an individual case of any complexity, and each might introduce a new element into the case which could affect jurisdiction. For example, federal jurisdiction could be created by an amended pleading adding a federal cause of action or an order dismissing a non diverse party. The types of documents mentioned in § 1446(b) are listed in a logical sequence in the development of an individual case. In light of this context, in which the words “order or other paper” follow immediately after amended pleading and motion, it would be an unsupported stretch to interpret “order” to include a decision in a separate case with different parties. If Congress had intended new developments in the law to trigger the recommencement of the thirty day time limit, it could have easily added language making it clear that § 1446(b) was not only addressing developments within a case. Our interpretation of § 1446(b) is consistent with the canon of statutory interpretation that when “several items in a list share an attribute,” courts are to construe “the other items as possessing that attribute as well.” Moreover, courts have interpreted the “other paper” term in § 1446(b) to apply to papers and documents involved in the case being removed.”
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.