Atchison v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
11 F. 582 · 1882
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1936 · most notably Wabash Western Railway v. Brow (1896), Washington & Idaho Railroad v. Cœur D'Alene Railway & Navigation Co. (1895)
4 district ·
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 Scudder v. Union National Bank · Person v. . Grier · Sanford v. Chase · Brooks v. Farwell · Plimpton v. Winslow
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ There was, in fact, no appearance entered in the state court, unless the filing of a petition and the giving a bond constituted-an appearance; but I think it was not, in any event, such an appearance as to deprive the defendant of the right to make objections in this court to the service of summons. In-fact, it may have been, among other reasons, for the very purpose of objecting to the service of summons that defendant requested that the cause should be removed to the federal court, because in a proper case a party has the right to the opinion of the federal court on every question that may arise in the case, not only in relation to the pleading and merits, but to the service of process ; and it would be contrary to the manifest intent of the act of congress to hold that a party who has a right to remove a catase is foreclosed as to any question which the federal court can be called upon under the law to decide; and I have no doubt this is such a question.””
3 later decisions 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.