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102 U.S. 177 · 1880

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
10
cited 10 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
June 2002
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2002 · most notably Fisk v. Henarie (1892), Rosenthal v. Coates (1893)

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions

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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 Meyer v. Construction Co. · Vannevar v. Bryant

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We agree that, as a general rule, the petition must be filed in a way that it may be said to have been in law presented to the court before the trial is in good faith entered upon. There may be exceptions to this rule; but we think it clear that Congress did not intend, by the expression “before trial”, to allow a party to experiment on his case in the State court, and, if he met with unexpected difficulties, stop the proceedings, and take his suit to another tribunal.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 370 F. Supp. 473 - Chesimard v. Kuhlthau
  2. “disposed of the case finally upon its merits, and nothing remained to be dorie but to-continue the hearing already begun-until the necessary accounts could be taken, and the details of a final decree settled.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Hewitt v. Phelps

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.