People's Bank v. Calhoun’s Empirical Analysis
102 U.S. 256 · 1880
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 24 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably Brown Shoe Co. v. United States (1962), American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn (1951)
60 federal appellate · 24 district · 5 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 Freeman v. Howe · Robertson v. Cease · Wiswall v. Sampson · Minnesota Company v. St Paul Company · The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. Henry K William
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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It needs no citation of authorities to show that the mere consent of parties cannot confer upon a court of the United States the jurisdiction to hear and decide a case. If this were once conceded, the Federal courts would become the common resort of persons who have no right, either under the Constitution or the laws of the United States, to litigate in those courts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““And whether this bill be regarded as a pure cross bill, as an original bill in the nature of a cross bill, or as an original bill, there is no error calling for the disturbance of the decree, because the court proceeded upon it in connection with the other pleadings. The jurisdiction of the circuit court did not depend upon the citizenship of the parties, but on the subject-matter of the litigation. The property was in the actual possession of that court, and this drew to it the right to decide upon the conflicting claims to its ultimate possession and control.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“.“The parties did no more than wliat they could have been compelled to do by the injunction of the latter [that is, the federal court], and what would have been done by such compulsory order, if they had not submitted to it by agreement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Compton v. Jesup
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.