In re Digicon Marine, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
966 F.2d 158 · 1992
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Ragas v. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. (1998), Thomas v. LTV Corp. (1994)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Browning v. Navarro · Baris v. Sulpicio Lines Inc · McDermott International, Inc. v. Lloyds Underwriters of London · Shell Oil Company
Most-quoted passages
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“[d]espite the district court's description of the remand as one based on a lack of subject matter jurisdiction in its order on reconsideration, the district court's original remand order clearly indicates on its face that the remand was not based upon lack of original subject matter jurisdiction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of his reasons for remanding. However, Digicon Marine supports, rather than contradicts, our holding today. In that case, the trial court granted a motion to remand based on the lack of authority to remove a maritime case under 28 U.S.C. § 1441(b). Id. at 159. Later, in an order denying reconsideration, it stated that the earlier ruling was based upon a lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Id. We concluded that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“remand based on a lack of `removal jurisdiction' is not considered lack of subject matter jurisdiction but is instead a defect in removal procedure”
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.