Bell v. Hershey Co.’s Empirical Analysis
557 F.3d 953 · 2009
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Rodriguez v. AT & T Mobility Services LLC (2013), Hargis v. Access Capital Funding, LLC (2012)
15 federal appellate · 9 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. § 1711 (§ 3 of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · De Aguilar v. Boeing Co. · Lowery v. Alabama Power Co. · Oshana v. Coca-Cola Co. · Brill v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“departure] from our non CAFA precedent where we have only required a removing party to establish jurisdictional facts by a preponderance of the evidence”). . The Eighth Circuit is one such court, having historically held that the value of injunctive relief for purposes of the amount in controversy is determined by analyzing the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the defendant seeks to invoke federal jurisdiction through removal,..., it bears the burden of proving that the jurisdictional threshold is satisfied.”
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.