Elsis v. Hertz Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2007
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. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447
Relies on American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · Robert L. Bradford v. Emmet E. Harding · American Mutual Liability Insurance v. Flintkote Co. · 526 F. Supp. 1162 - Luebbe v. Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center · Knight v. Hellenic Lines, Ltd.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whenever a separate and independent claim or cause of action within the jurisdiction conferred by section 1331 of this title is joined with one or more otherwise non-removable claims or causes of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lytle v. Lytle
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.