Shell Oil Company’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Baris v. Sulpicio Lines Inc (1991), Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York v. Republic of Palau (1992)
20 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1443 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447
Relies on Thermtron Products, Inc. v. Hermansdorfer · Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Salsbury Industries v. United States · Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad v. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen · Browning v. Navarro
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion to remand the case on the basis of any defect in removal procedure must be made within 30 days after the filing of the notice of removal under section 1446(a). If at any time before final judgment it appears that the district court lacks subject matter jurisdiction, the case shall be remanded.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 1447(c) requires that motions for remand must be made within 30 days of removal, except in cases in which the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on any ground other than lack of subject matter 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.