Rill v. Trautman’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Board of Ed., Island Trees Union Free School Dist. No. 26 v. Pico · Callahan v. Cardinal Glennon Hospital · Gustafson v. Benda · Buford v. Tremayne
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] case of action for loss of consortium, while derivative of, is otherwise to be considered separate and distinct from [a] plaintiff spouse's action for damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.