Bacon v. Rives’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 99 · 1882
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 13 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2010 · most notably Salem Trust Co. v. Manufacturers' Finance Co. (1924), Torrence v. Shedd (1892)
45 federal appellate · 13 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on Phillips v. Holman · White v. Leavitt
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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is of no moment [to him] whether the one or the other side in [the] controversy succeed[s].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Wo have endeavored to show that the land company was not an indispensaMe party to the controversy "between the plaintiffs and the defendants, citizens of New York, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts. Whether those defendants and the land company were not proper parties to the suit, we do not now decide. * * * A defendant may be a proper, but not an indispensable, party to the relief asked. In a variety of cases it is in the discretion of the plaintiff as to whom he will join as defendant. Consistently with the established rules of pleading, he may be governed often by considerations of mere convenience; and it may be that there was or is such a connection between the various transactions set out in the complaint as to make all of the defendants proper parlies to the suit, and to every controversy embraced by it. * * * We are of the opinion that, upon the filing of the petition and bond of the individual defendants in the separable controversy between them and the plaintiffs, the entire suit, although all of the defendants may have been proper parties thereto, was removed to the circuit court of the United States, and that the order remanding it to slate court was erroneous.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.