Fraser v. Jennison’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 191 · 1882
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 27 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1984 · most notably McArthur v. Scott (1885), Starin v. Mayor Etc of the City of New York Independent Steam-Boat Co (1885)
40 federal appellate · 27 district · 12 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. · Barney v. Latham · Hyde v. Ruble · Blake v. McKim
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There must exist in the suit a separate and distinct cause of action, on which a separate and distinct suit might properly have been brought, and complete relief afforded as to such cause of action, with all parties on one side of that controversy citizens of different states from those on the other.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The case must be one capable of separation into parts, so that, in one of the parts, a controversy will be presented with citizens of one or more states on one side, and citizens of other states on the other, which can be fully determined without the presence of any of the other parties to the suit as it has been begun.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““And when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different States, and which can be fully determined as between them, then either one or more of the defendants actually interested’ in such controversy may remove said suit into the district court of the United States for the proper district.””
1 later decision 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.