Evans Transportation Company v. Scullin Steel Company’s Empirical Analysis
693 F.2d 715 · 1982
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Bankers Trust Company v. Old Republic Insurance Company (1992), Lumen Construction, Inc. v. Brant Construction Co. (1985)
42 federal appellate · 4 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Will v. Calvert Fire Insurance · 14 Ill. App. 3d 965 - Cook Associates, Inc. v. Colonial Broach & MacHine Co. · Mottolese v. Kaufman
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]ntil Congress decides to alter or eliminate the diversity jurisdiction we are not free to treat the diversity litigant as a second-class litigant, and we would be doing just that if we allowed a weaker showing of judicial economy to justify abstention in a diversity case than in a federal-question case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although Colorado River involved special factors that warranted abstention in favor of the parallel state action, the Court formulated the issue in general terms: “In assessing the appropriateness of dismissal in the event of an exercise of concurrent jurisdiction, a federal court may also consider [in addition to whether the state court has assumed jurisdiction over property, see id. at 818 , 96 S.Ct. at 1246-1247 ] such factors as.the inconvenience of the federal forum, the desirability of avoiding piecemeal litigation, and the order in which jurisdiction was obtained by the concurrent forums. No one factor is necessarily determinative .... Only the clearest of justifications will warrant dismissal. Id. at 818-19 , 96 S.Ct. at 1247 (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“apart from the statute of limitations consequences, a stay is the equivalent of a dismissal without prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quilter v. Voinovich
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.