Davis v. Veslan Enterprises’s Empirical Analysis
765 F.2d 494 · 1985
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Thomas v. Capital Security Services, Inc. (1988), Zaldivar v. City of Los Angeles (1986)
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1446 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447
Relies on Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Eastway Construction Corp. v. City of New York · Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Elliott v. Perez
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
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6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he court ... retains the necessary flexibility to deal appropriately with violations of the rule. It has discretion to tailor sanctions to the particular facts of the case, with which it should be well acquainted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is more stringent than the original good-faith formula and thus ... a greater range of circumstances will trigger its violation.”
3 later decisions 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.