Therrien v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2018
13 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. § 1447 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Thomas v. Arn · Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a claim or right arising under the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The federal courts have interpreted this statutory grant of power narrowly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the burden is upon the removing party to show ... that removal is proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. McGuire
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.