863 F. Supp. 430 - McCraw v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2024
4 federal appellate ·
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) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1446
Relies on McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets · Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Organization · Gafford v. General Electric Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even where the amount of damages is not specified, if the defendant is able to ascertain from a fair reading of the complaint or other papers filed that' the minimum jurisdictional amount exists, he cannot “sit idly by” while the statutory period runs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] defendant’s failure to comply with the statute’s thirty-day limitation is an absolute bar to removal regardless of whether the removal would have been proper if timely filed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from which it may first be ascertained that the case is one which is or has become removable.” 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (b). There are some differences among courts as to when a defendant is required to remove where plaintiff has not specified the amount of damages. This Court has stated that”
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.