Betar v. De Havilland Aircraft of Canada, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
603 F.2d 30 · 1979
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Goldstick v. ICM Realty (1986), 102 Ill. 2d 342 - Maunder v. DeHavilland Aircraft of Canada, Ltd. (1984)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Mecom v. Fitzsimmons Drilling Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Plasterers' Local Union No. 79 · Kramer v. Caribbean Mills, Inc. · Cirillo v. United States · Williamson v. Gilmer
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is immaterial that the motive for obtaining his appointment and qualification was that he might thus be clothed with a right to institute an action which could not be ... removed on the ground of diversity of citizenship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pallazola v. Rucker“Since the decision in Kramer, however, the Courts of Appeals have accorded little weight to these suggested distinctions and have followed the Third Circuit decision in McSparren [sic].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pallazola v. Rucker“the citizenship of the real party in interest is determinative in deciding whether the district court has diversity jurisdiction.”
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.