McConihay v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
121 U.S. 201 · 1887
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 16 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Smyth v. Ames (1898), Smith v. Truman Reeves (1900)
62 federal appellate · 16 district · 7 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 Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Bank of Augusta v. Earle · People ex rel. Attorney General v. Utica Insurance · East Alabama Ry Co v. Doe Visscher
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Bills quia timet ... belong to the ancient jurisdiction in equity, and no change in state legislation ... can, of itself, curtail the jurisdiction in equity of the courts of the United States.”
5 later decisions 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.