Carson v. Dunham’s Empirical Analysis
121 U.S. 421 · 1887
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 47 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 317 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2014 · most notably Ex Parte: Edward T Young (1908), Wilson v. Republic Iron & Steel Co. (1921)
51 federal appellate · 47 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Proffitt v. Florida · Stone v. State of South Carolina · Starin v. Mayor Etc of the City of New York Independent Steam-Boat Co · Gold-Washing and Water Company v. Keyes · Reggel
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 317 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"And under section 2 of that act, which provided that any suit of a civil nature, at law or in equity, brought in any state court, ‘and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made or which shall lie made under their authority,’ might be removed by either party into the Circuit Court of the United States, it was held sufficient to justify a removal by the defendant that the record at the time of the removal, showed that either party claimed a right under the Constitution or laws of the "United States.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The answer was germane to the petition, and did no more than set forth in proper form what had before been imperfectly stated. To that extent, we think, it was proper to amend a petition which, on its face, showed a right to the transfer.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Before, therefore, a Circuit Court can bo required; to retain a cause under this jurisdiction, it must in some form appear upon the record, by a statement of tacts, ‘in legal and logical form,’ such as is required in good pleading, that the suit is one which really and substantially involves a dispute or controversy as to a right which depends upon the construction or «fleet of the Constitution, or some law or treaty of the United States.””
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.