Janet K. Robertson, and Husband, Mark Robertson v. Jack J. Ball, and Wife, Viola Ball’s Empirical Analysis
534 F.2d 63 · 1976
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Browning v. Navarro (1984), Snapper, Inc. v. Redan (1999)
28 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Thermtron Products, Inc. v. Hermansdorfer · Georgia v. Rachel · City of Greenwood v. Peacock
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nce the federal district court considers the proper factors and decides to remand, the action should go forward in state court without the further delay of appeal, and without regard to whether the federal district court was correct or incorrect”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no doubt that . . . Congress immunized from all forms of appellate review any remand order issued on the grounds specified in § 1447(c), whether or not that order might be deemed erroneous by an appellate court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“insure that the Sec. 1443 exception to Sec. 1447(d) not be used as a dilatory tactic by recalcitrant state court defendants”
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.