Casey v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
102 U.S. 66 · 1880
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 22 district · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2014 · most notably Mercantile National Bank at Dallas v. C H Langdeau Republic National Bank of Dallas (1963), Michigan National Bank v. Robertson (1963)
33 federal appellate · 22 district · 95 state decisions — followed in 22 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.
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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The distinction between local and transitory actions is as old as actions themselves, and no one has ever supposed that laws which prescribed generally where one should be sued included such suris as were local in their character, either by statute or the common law, unless it was expressly so declared. Local actions are in the nature of suits in rem, and are to be prosecuted where the thing on which they are founded is situated.””
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Actions and proceedings against any association under this chapter may be had in any district or Territorial court of the United States held within the district in which such association may be established, or in any State, county, or municipal court in the county or city in which said association is located having jurisdiction in similar cases."”
6 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.