Blake v. McKim’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 336 · 1880
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2001 · most notably Mecom v. Fitzsimmons Drilling Co. (1931), Alabama Great Southern Railway Co. v. Thompson (1906)
15 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 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 Meyer v. Construction Co. · Case of the Sewing Machine Companies
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contention upon the part of counsel for the executors is that the suit is removable upon their joint petition, under the first clause of that section. We are unable to concur in that view. There is, undoubtedly, some ground for such a construction, but we are not satisfied that Congress intended to enlarge the jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts to the extent which that construction would imply. The principal reason assigned in its support is that the clause follows the words of the Constitution, when giving jurisdiction to the Circuit Court of a suit in which there shall be ‘a controversy between citizens of different States’—language which, it is claimed, does not necessarily require that such controversy must be wholly between citizens of different states. But that consideration was pressed upon our attention in the Case of the Sewing Machine Companies ( 18 Wall. 553 ), which arose under Act March 2, 1867, c. 196. 14 Stat, 558. * * * The argument there, by counsel of recognized learning and ability, was that a controversy between citizens of different states is none the less a controversy between citizens of different states because others are also parties to it; that to confine the federal jurisdiction to cases wherein the controversy is between citizens of different states exclusively is to interpolate into the Constitution a word not placed there by those who ordained it, and materially limiting or controlling its express provisions. We declined to adopt that constr”
3 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.