Martin v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
723 F.2d 989 · 1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2020
5 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)
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld · Manual De J. Gomez v. Jerry v. Wilson, Chief of Police
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile the 'legal certainty' test is an exacting one, the burden of establishing the amount in controversy ... rests squarely with the litigant asserting jurisdiction.”
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.