White v. Greenhow’s Empirical Analysis
114 U.S. 307 · 1884
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017 · most notably Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. (1949), Smith v. Kansas City Title & Trust Co. (1921)
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The present action, as shown on the face of the declaration, was a case arising under the constitution of the United States, and was one, therefore, of which the circuit court had rightful jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. Gilmer
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.