Fletcher v. Hamlet’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 408 · 1886
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 27 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2014 · most notably Brooks v. Clark (1886), Wilson v. Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association
29 federal appellate · 27 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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The cause of action is joint. There is no separable controversy in the case. There can be no removal by the defendants unless they all join, and all are citizens of different states from the plaintiffs. Confessedly, Wesenberg lost his right to a removal by failing to make the application in time; and, as Fletcher cannot take the case from the state court unless Wesenberg joins with him, it follows that he is subjected to Wesenberg’s disability.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That whenever either party ... entitled to remove any suit mentioned in the next preceding section shall desire to remove such suit from a State court to the circuit court of the United States, he or they may make and file a petition in such suit in such State court before or at the term at which said cause could be first tried and before the trial thereof for the removal of such suit into the circuit court to be held in the district where such suit is pending____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is conceded that the suit was not removable when the petition for removal was filed, unless the service of process on Fletcher on the fourth of June so changed the character of the litigation as to make it substantially a new suit begun that day. In our opinion such was not the effect of the new process.”
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.