Groves v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
547 F.2d 898 · 1977
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2006
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 · 224 F. Supp. 252 - Ward v. Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries Commission · Peterson v. Sucro · W. O. Hilton, and Wife, Malvirin Hilton v. The Atlantic Refining Company · Ward v. Louisiana Wild Life & Fisheries Commission
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This action stems from a boundary line dispute between the late Erin Bain Jones and the appellee “The proceedings below were initiated by a complaint and subsequently an amended complaint in which appellants requested possession and title to the 56-acre area in dispute. Appellee filed a motion to dismiss on the grounds that under Rule 19 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure appellants failed to join indispensable parties and if joined those parties would destroy the diversity between plaintiffs and defendants. Appellants filed a second amended complaint with their response to the motion deleting the prayer for title and seeking injunc-tive relief and damages. The court below dismissed the action because the amount in controversy was insufficient to invoke federal court jurisdiction. A motion to alter judgment was subsequently filed by appellants with a third amended complaint; however, upon consideration, the district court affirmed its order of dismissal. It is that dismissal that appellants have appealed to this court. “The facts indicate this is really a title dispute and the Supreme Court of Texas has decided that ‘. . . the issue of ownership which includes boundary disputes between adjacent landowners could not be decided by a suit to enjoin the erection of a fence but should be adjudicated in a suit for trespass to try title.’ Frost v. Mischer, 463 S.W.2d 166, 168 (Tex.1971). If suit had been brought to try title (as it originally was) as required under Frost the v”
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.