Crump v. Thurber’s Empirical Analysis
115 U.S. 56 · 1885
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2005 · most notably Willing v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n (1928), Wilson v. Oswego Tp (1894)
15 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 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 Ayres v. Wiswall · Louisville v. Ide · Pirie v. Tvedt · Hyde v. Ruble · Blake v. McKim
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jurisdiction of the Circuit Court must be determined, for the purpose of this case, by the status of the parties and the nature of the relief which had been asked by the plaintiff at the time of the application for removal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Clifford
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.