Rand v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
117 U.S. 340 · 1886
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1940
3 federal appellate · 3 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 Kerrison Assignee v. Stewart et al.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to tbis it is sufficient to say that neither of the parties to this eontro-versy, it it be separable — a question which we clo not decide — have petitioned for removal, and the right to remove a suit on the ground of a separable con- trovevsy is, by the statute, confined to the parties actually interested in such controversy.””
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.