Bane v. Keefer’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Sec. 37. If in any suit commenced in a District Court, or removed from a state court to a District Court of the United States, it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said District Court, at any time after such suit' has been brought or removed thereto, that such suit does not really and substantially involve a dispute or controversy properly within the jurisdiction of said District Court, or that the parties to said suit have been improperly or collusively made or joined, either as plaintiffs or defendants, for the purpose of creating a ease cognizable or removable under this chapter, the said District Court shall proceed no further therein, but 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
   e.g. Highway Const. Co. v. McClelland

2. ““If the controversy between the plaintiff and Brown on the one side and Sorin on the other had been such as to justify a removal, there can he no doubt that after that controversy had been settled, as shown by the stipulation of the parties to it, the suit no longer really involved a (dispute or' controversy properly within the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court, and should therefore have been remanded to the state court, under section 5 of the act of March 3, 1875.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jellison v. Krell Piano Co.