White v. Wellington’s Empirical Analysis
627 F.2d 582 · 1980
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Northern Illinois Gas Company v. Airco Industrial Gases a Division of Airco Inc (1982), Regis Associates v. Rank Hotels (Management) Ltd. (1990)
15 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1442 · 28 U.S.C. § 1443 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 3766
Relies on Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Georgia v. Rachel · City of Greenwood v. Peacock · Willingham v. Morgan
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Except as otherwise expressly provided by Act of Congress, any civil action brought in a State court of which the district courts of the United States have original jurisdiction, may be removed by the defendant or the defendants, to the district court of the United States for the district and division embracing the place where such action is pending. (b) Any civil action of which the district courts have original jurisdiction founded on a claim or right arising under the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States shall be removable without regard to the citizenship or residence of the parties. Any other such action shall be removable only if none of the parties in interest properly joined and served as defendants is a citizen of the State in which such action is brought. (c)Whenever a separate and independent claim or cause of action, which would be removable if sued upon alone, is joined with one or more otherwise non-removable claims or causes of action, the entire case may be removed and the district court may determine all issues therein, or, in its discretion, may remand all matters not otherwise within its original jurisdiction.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a colorable conflict between state and federal law leading to [their] refusal to follow plaintiff’s interpretation of state law be- cause of a good faith belief that to do so would violate federal law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he legislative history limits those able to remove thereunder to state officers, and those acting with or for them including local and municipal officials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Greenberg v. Veteran
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.