Russell v. Stansell’s Empirical Analysis
105 U.S. 303 · 1881
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1999 · most notably Zahn v. International Paper Co. (1973), Thomson v. Gaskill (1942)
39 federal appellate · 7 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 Seaver v. Bigelows · Abraham Rich v. Charles Lambert · Brandies v. Cochrane · Ohn Stratton v. Leonard Jarvis
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the land within a particular district was 'assessed for taxation, each owner being liable only for the amount wherewith he was separately charged, and the bill of complaint, filed by a number of them, praying for an injunction against the collection, of the assessment, was "dismissed, and they appealed here, held,' that the several amounts cannot be united to make up -the' sum necessary to give this court jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is well settled that neither co-defendants nor co-complainants can unite their separate and distinct interests for the purpose of making up the amount necessary to give us jurisdiction on an appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“although the amount due the appellee from the levee district exceeds $5000, his claim on the several owners of property is only for the sum assessed against them respectively.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibson v. Shufeldt
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.