Börs v. Preston’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 252 · 1884
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 29 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 239 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2002 · most notably Matthews v. Rodgers (1932), Terry (1888)
45 federal appellate · 29 district · 58 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Cohens v. Virginia · Grace v. American Central Insurance · Robertson v. Cease
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 239 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The true rule in this case is * * * [that] the grant of jurisdiction over a certain subject-matter to one court, does not, of itself, imply that that jurisdiction is to be exclusive.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the presumption, in every stage of the cause, is that it is without their jurisdiction, unless the contrary appears from the record”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Supreme Court shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction of * * * all controversies between the United States and a State.”
2 later decisions 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.