Spivey v. Vertrue, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.3d 982 · 2008
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Co. v. Owens (2014), Amoche v. Guarantee Trust Life Insurance (2009)
17 federal appellate · 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1453 (§ 5 of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Lamie v. United States Trustee · Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Allapattah Services, Inc. · United States v. Locke
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court of appeals may accept an appeal from an order of a district court granting or denying a motion to remand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[T]he removing party’s burden is to show not only what the stakes of the litigation could be, but also what they are given the plaintiffs actual demands .... The demonstration concerns what the plaintiff is claiming (and thus the amount in controversy between the parties), not whether plaintiff is likely to win or be awarded everything he seeks.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Once the proponent of federal jurisdiction has explained plausibly how the stakes exceed $5 million, then the case belongs in federal court unless it is legally impossible for the plaintiff to recover that much.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.