Nathan S. Smith v. Arthur R. Grimm and Jeannine Grimm’s Empirical Analysis
534 F.2d 1346 · 1976
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Hunter v. United Van Lines (1984), Stone v. Stone (1980)
55 federal appellate · 12 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 Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Hagans v. Lavine · Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . .of all civil actions wherein the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $10,000, exclusive of interest and costs, and arises under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a direct and essential element of the plaintiff's cause of action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any action in the nature of mandamus to compel an officer or employee of the United States or any agency thereof to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions 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.