Menard v. Goggan’s Empirical Analysis
121 U.S. 253 · 1887
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1989 · most notably Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain (1989), Norton v. Larney (1925)
17 federal appellate · 2 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 Continental Insurance v. Rhoads · Everhart v. Huntsville Female College Clay · Hancock v. Holbrook · Halsted v. Buster
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the necessary citizenship actually existed at the time the suit was begun, it will be for the court below to determine when the case gets back whether the record shall be amended so as to show that fact, and thus make out the jurisdiction.””
2 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.