Four Keys Leasing & Maintenance Corp. v. Simithis’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 770 · 1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2017
8 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1443 · 28 U.S.C. § 1446
Relies on Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Georgia v. Rachel · Eastway Construction Corp. v. City of New York · Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Sarkisian
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it should have been patently obvious to any attorney who had familiarized himself [or herself] with the law”
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.