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Ruppel v. CBS Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

701 F.3d 1176 · 2012

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 1 U.S.C. § 1 (Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002) · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 28 U.S.C. § 1442 · 28 U.S.C. § 1446 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 28 U.S.C. § 1653

Relies on Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Boyle v. United Technologies Corp. · Willingham v. Morgan · Mesa v. California

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

  1. “at this point, we are concerned with who makes the ultimate determination, not what that determination will be.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “A civil action or criminal prosecution that is commenced in a State court and that is against or directed to any of the following may be removed by them to the district court of the United States for the district and division embracing the place wherein it is pending: ... The United States or any agency thereof or any officer (or any person acting under that officer) of the United States or of any agency thereof, in an official or individual capacity, for or relating to any act under color of such office[.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “(1) the United States approved reasonably precise specifications; (2) the equipment conformed to those specifications; and (3) the supplier warned the United States about the dangers in the use of the equipment that were known to the supplier but not to the United States.”
    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.