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Bell v. City of Kellogg’s Empirical Analysis

922 F.2d 1418 · 1991

Citation profile

71
cited by 71 later decisions
May 2019
most recently cited

38 federal appellate · 9 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Cashmere & Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute v. Saks Fifth Avenue (2002), Arizona Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. v. Berkeley (1995)

38 federal appellate · 9 district ·

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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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 5 U.S.C. § 702

Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Flast v. Cohen · Sierra Club v. Morton · Carnegie v. United States · United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP)

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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “An appeal is frivolous when the result is obvious or the appellants' arguments are wholly without merit.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “an exception to § 1447(c) where there is 'absolute certainty that remand would prove futile.' " Id. at 1425 (quoting M.A.I.N. v. Comm'r, Maine Dept. of Human Servs. , 876 F.2d 1051 , 1054 (1st Cir.1989) ). "Because we are certain that a remand to state court would be futile, no comity concerns are involved. District court resolution of the entire case prevents any further waste of valuable judicial time and resources.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Without actual injury and redressability, there is no case or controversy under Article III of the federal constitution and no jurisdiction.”
    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.