Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2025
2 federal appellate ·
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 Thermtron Products, Inc. v. Hermansdorfer · Gravitt v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. · In re Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Santiago Plaza · Southeast Mortgage Co. v. Mullins
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in pertinent part: 'If the case was removable at all, it was removable prior to the appearance of the Defendants in the Superior Court action.' " 610 F.2d at 336 n. 4. The court concluded that it "seems apparent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“logical inference that he felt jurisdiction was lacking.”
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.