Babbitt v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 606 · 1880
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2003 · most notably Railroad Company v. Koontz Railroad Company (1881), Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. McCabe (1909)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 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 Railroad Company v. Wiswall
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The act of congress does not provide for the removal of a cause at the first term at which a trial can be had on the issues, as finally settled by leave of the court or otherwise, but at the first term at Which the cause, as a cause, could be tried.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“before or at the .term at-which said cause could be first tried and before the trial thereof,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The right to remove a suit from a State court to the (Circuit) Court of the United States is statutory, and to effect a transfer of jurisdiction all the requirements of the statute must be followed. If this is done, the controversy is brought properly within the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court, and may be lawfully disposed of there; but if not, the rightful jurisdiction continues in the State Court.””
2 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.