Northern Illinois Gas Company v. Airco Industrial Gases a Division of Airco Inc’s Empirical Analysis
676 F.2d 270 · 1982
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Shaw v. Dow Brands, Inc. (1993), Bernstein v. Lind-Waldock & Co. (1984)
20 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 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 Georgia v. Rachel · Willingham v. Morgan · Powers v. Chesapeake O Ry Co · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Martin · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Cockrell
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] petition filed by less than all of the named defendants is considered defective if it fails to contain an explanation for the absence of co-defendants.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Removal must be effected within thirty days after a defendant receives a copy of the state court complaint, or is served, whichever occurs first.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n determining whether a removal petition is incurably defective, the court not only examines the specific allegations of the petition itself, but also must scrutinize the record of the state court proceedings”
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.