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Cilley v. Patten’s Empirical Analysis

62 F. 498 · 1894

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
November 1941
most recently cited

1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1941

1 district ·

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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 Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan · American Construction Co v. Jacksonville T K W Ry Co Same · Williams v. Nottawa · Detroit v. Dean · Cashman v. Amador & Sacramento Canal Co.

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.

  1. ““Sec. 5. Tliat if, in any suit commenced in a circuit court, or removed from a state court io a circuit court of the United States it shall appear to the satisfaction of said circuit court at any time after such suit has been brought or removed thereto, that such suit docs not really and substantially involve a dis pnte or controversy properly within the jurisdiction of said circuit court, or that the parties to said suit have been improperly or eollusively made or joined, either as plaintiffs or defendants, for the purpose of creating a case cognizable or removable under this act, the said circuit court shall proceed no further therein, hut shall dismiss the suit or remand it to the court from which it was removed, as justice may require, and shall make such order as to costs as shall be just.””
    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.