Robinson v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
121 U.S. 522 · 1887
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1955 · most notably St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co (1938), Lambert Run Coal Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1922)
15 federal appellate · 1 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 Starin v. Mayor Etc of the City of New York Independent Steam-Boat Co
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even if the complaint, standing by itself, made out a case of jurisdiction,— which we do not decide, — it was taken away as soon as the answers were in; because, if there was jurisdiction at all, it was by reason of the averments in the complaint as to what the defenses against the title of the plaintiff's would be, and these were of no avail, as soon as the answers were filed and it was made to appear that no snch defenses were relied upon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The court was not required to keep the suit after the discontinuance simply because it might have been removed when Huntington was a party. As .soon as he was out of the case, it did appear that ‘the suit did not really and substantially involve a dispute or controversy properly within’ its jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bane v. Keefer
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.