Green v. Ferrell’s Empirical Analysis
664 F.2d 1292 · 1982
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Growth Horizons, Inc. v. Delaware County (1993), Nucorp Energy Securities Litigation Phelps 3/4%-10% v. Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago (1985)
17 federal appellate · 1 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 Bell v. Wolfish · Bell v. Hood · Williamson v. Tucker · Smith v. Sullivan
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Premerits factual inquiries which affect the existence of subject matter jurisdiction are restricted to such matters as the determination of citizenship of the parties or the amount in controversy in a diversity action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“rather than seeking to determine some discrete jurisdictional requisite, [the factual inquiry conducted by the district court] blanketed the merits of plaintiff's claims”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] plaintiff's failure to state a meritorious cause of action does not defeat subject matter jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.