DeBry v. Transamerica Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
601 F.2d 480 · 1979
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 29 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Naartex Consulting Corp. v. Watt (1983), Adams v. Gould Inc. (1984)
24 federal appellate · 29 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. § 1446
Relies on Powers v. Chesapeake O Ry Co · Kelleam v. Maryland Casualty Co. · Henry Whitcomb v. John a Smithson · Realty Holding Co. v. Donaldson · Weems v. Louis Dreyfus Corp.
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the case stated by the initial pleading is not removable, a petition for removal may be filed within thirty days after receipt by the defendant, through service or otherwise, of a copy of an amended pleading, motion, order or other paper from which it may first be ascertained that the case is one which is or has become removable.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The general effect of the [voluntary-involuntary] test is that a cause cannot be removed where the removability is a result of some development other than a voluntary act of plaintiff. The cause cannot be removed as a result of evidence from the defendant or the result of a court order rendered on the merits of the case.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the statute is going to run, the notice ought to be unequivocal. It should not be one which may have a double design.”
4 later decisions 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.