Tedder v. F.M.C. Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably United States v. Jernigan (2003), Greenbriar, Ltd. v. City of Alabaster (1989)
48 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 · Pullman Co. v. Jenkins · New York Central Railroad v. Board of Public Utility Commissioners · Galtieri v. Wainwright · Davis v. Hill Engineering, 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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is no arguably reasonable basis for predicting that state law might impose liability on the resident defendants under the facts alleged, then the claim is deemed fraudulent and lack of diversity will not prevent removal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no such reasonable basis for predicting that the [plaintiff] could prevail under Louisiana law as it stands today”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carrie Badon
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.