Oakley v. Goodnow’s Empirical Analysis
118 U.S. 43 · 1886
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Minnesota v. Northern Securities Co. (1904), Carson v. Dunham (1887)
11 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 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 Provident Savings Life Assur Soc of New York v. Ford
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t, may, perhaps, be a good defence to an action in a state court to show that a colorable assignment has been made to deprive the United States court of jurisdiction; but, as before said, it would be a defence to the action, and not a ground of removing that cause into the federal court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no authority has as yet been given [federal courts] to take jurisdiction of a case by removal from state court when a colorable assignment has been made to prevent such a removal ... resort can only be had to the state courts for protection against the consequences of such an encroachment on the rights of a defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Under the law as it now stands resort can only be had to the state courts for protection against the consequences of such an encroachment on the rights of a defendant.” ( 6 S.Ct. at 945 )”
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.