Csibi v. Fustos’s Empirical Analysis

670 F.2d 134 · 1982

Citation profile

cited by 61 later decisions

January 2008

most recently cited

44 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Augustine v. United States (1983), Gilchrist v. Jim Slemons Imports, Inc. (1986)

44 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)

Relies on Sosna v. Iowa · City of Kenosha v. Bruno · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Magna Oil Corp. v. Bateson · Kissinger v. Halperin

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

“It follows that the exception to jurisdiction arises in those cases where a federal court is asked to grant a decree of divorce or annulment, or to grant custody or fix payments for support, the rationale being that those actions are close to the historical concept of an ecclesiastical action and peculiarly within the province of the state courts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. David A. Thompson v. Susan A. Thompson, AKA Susan A. Clay · Thompson v. A Thompson a
“[I]t is the duty of federal courts to assure themselves that their jurisdiction is not being exceeded.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. In Re Ryther · Matter of Dennig
“'suits of a civil nature in law or in equity.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Thompson v. Thompson · David A. Thompson v. Susan A. Thompson, AKA Susan A. Clay

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.