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Saint Paul Mercury Indemnity Co. v. Red Cab Co.

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Questioned by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
303 U.S. 283
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
172 of 172
Citing cases (total)
3,971
Treatment dates
2013
Questioned by some courts
At least one reviewed court has questioned this case’s reasoning or continued validity. No reviewed court has overruled it. Saint Paul Mercury Indemnity Co. v. Red Cab Co. has been questioned on whether a post-removal reduction can leave federal jurisdiction intact after Congress amended the remand statute. All 172 flagged citations have been read.
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Andrews v. MV Transportation Inc. raised that question without deciding it; later opinions continued to apply Red Cab's amount-in-controversy rules.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

3,971 later cases cite Saint Paul Mercury Indemnity Co. v. Red Cab Co.; 172 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Questioned

  • The district court raised doubt about Red Cab's post-removal jurisdiction rule in light of amended remand language, leaving the issue unresolved.

    Andrews v. MV Transportation Inc. · U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia · filed

    The Court is also cognizant of the fact that this Circuit has not yet opined on the continued viability of St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Co. v. Red Cab Co., 303 U.S. 283 (1938), which held that “events occurring subsequent to removal which reduce the amount recoverable . . . do not oust the district court’s jurisdiction once it has attached,” id. at 293, in light of the updated text of the remand statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c), which now provides that a case must be remanded if “at any time before final judgment it appears that the district court lacks subject matter jurisdiction.” § 1447(c) (emphasis added).
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