Shaw v. Munford’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2017
2 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. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447
Relies on Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger · Thermtron Products, Inc. v. Hermansdorfer · In re Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance · Desert Empire Bank v. Insurance Co. of North America · 506 F. Supp. 302 - Soam Corp. v. Trane Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All persons ... may be joined in one action as defendants if there is asserted against them jointly, severally, or in the alternative, any right to relief in respect of or arising out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences and if any ques tion of law or fact common to all defendants will arise in the action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is nothing in the [Thermtron ] opinion to suggest that the discretion accorded a district judge under Rule 20 has been abrogated in situations in which joinder will destroy diversity.”
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.