Carson v. Allied News Co.’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.2d 22 · 1975
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2005
14 federal appellate ·
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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1653
Relies on Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Levering & Garrigues Co. v. Morrin · Hapgood v. Hewitt · Continental Insurance v. Rhoads · Hugh Wallace v. Mary Wormley
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.
“When [28 U.S.C.] § 399 was revised and recodified as § 1653 in 1948, the legislative history indicates that the `[s]ection was extended to permit amendment of all jurisdictional allegations instead of merely allegations of diversity of citizenship as provided by section 399 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in fact existed at the time the suit was brought or removed, though defectively alleged.”
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.