Ching v. Mitre Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 11 · 1990
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 30 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Rivera-Muriente v. Agosto-Alicea (1992), Baker v. Board of Regents (1993)
13 federal appellate · 30 district · 2 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. § 1441 · 29 U.S.C. § 255 · 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Caterpillar Inc. v. Williams · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Delaware State College v. Ricks · Harris v. McRae · Chardon v. Fernandez
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An amendment to a complaint after removal designed to eliminate the federal claim will not defeat federal jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he federal district court was thereafter invested with jurisdiction, including discretion whether or not to hold or remand the state claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t was discretionary with the district court whether to remand the state claims.”
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.