Theodore Watkins and Vivian Watkins v. William B. Grover’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.2d 920 · 1974
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Anderson v. Allstate Insurance (1980), Salveson v. Western States Bankcard Ass'n (1984)
22 federal appellate · 7 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 Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. · Brough v. United Steelworkers of America · Rotermund v. United States Steel Corp. · Murphy v. Kodz
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that a federal court does have the power to hear claims that would not be independently removable even after the basis for removal jurisdiction is dropped from the proceedings.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the district court should decide whether to hear the suit on its merits or, in its discretion, to remand the suit to the state court from which it was 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.