Washington County v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
111 F. 801 · 1901
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 1978 · most notably St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co (1938), New York Life Ins Co v. Viglas (1936)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Roehm v. Horst · Oelrichs v. Spain · James Boyce's Executors v. Felix Grundy · Chicago Railway Equipment Co. v. Merchants' Bank · Clay v. Field
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The amount claimed in the declaration or complaint, not tbe amount of recovery, is the test of jurisdiction, and the fact that a sum in excess of $2,000 exclusive of interest and costs, was claimed, gave the trial court jurisdiction to render a judgment for a less amount unless this court is able to find that a demand for a sum in excess of $2,000 was interposed in bad faith, for no other purpose than to give the federal court jurisdiction.””
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.