Gould v. Mutual Life Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
790 F.2d 769 · 1986
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Abrego Abrego v. The Dow Chemical Co (2006), Hancock Industries v. Schaeffer (1987)
59 federal appellate · 7 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. § 1447
Relies on Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets · American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · Raphan v. United States · Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ask the district court whether it wishes to entertain the motion, or to grant it, and then move this court, if appropriate, for remand of the case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the federal [district] court would have had jurisdiction had the case been filed in federal court in the posture it had at the time of the entry of final judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the underlying judgment has been appealed, denial of a motion for relief from that judgment is a nonappealable order.”
2 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.