Meyer v. Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
100 U.S. 457 · 1879
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 51 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 529 later decisions (89 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2006 · most notably City of Indianapolis v. Chase Nat Bank of City of New York (1941), Smith v. Sperling (1957)
55 federal appellate · 51 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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 Christmas v. Russell · Insurance Company v. Dunn · Yulee v. Vose
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 529 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Either party to the controversy may remove the suit to the Circuit Court, without regard to the position they occupy in the pleadings as plaintiffs or defendants. For the purpose of the removal, the matter in dispute may be ascertained, and the parties to the suit arranged on opposite sides of the dispute. If, in such arrangement, it appears that those on one side were all citizens of different states from those on the other, the suit may be removed. Under the old law the pleadings only were looked at, and the rights of the parties in respect to removal were determined solely according to the position they occupied as plaintiffs or defendants in the suit. Under the new law the mere form of the pleadings may be put aside, and the parties placed on different sides of the matter in dispute according to the facts.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“allow a party to experiment on his case in the State court, and', if he-meets with unexpected difficulties, stop the proceedings and take his suit to another tribunal.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jifkins v. Sweetzer · Alley v. Nott“before or at the term at which said cause could be • first tried and before the trial thereof.”
5 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.