Gibson v. Shufeldt’s Empirical Analysis
122 U.S. 27 · 1887
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 19 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 207 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably Grosjean v. American Press Co. (1936), United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n (1897)
56 federal appellate · 19 district · 8 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 Market Company v. Hoffman · Stewart v. Dunham · Elgin v. Marshall · Hilton v. Dickinson · Rodd v. Heartt
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 207 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he test is whether they claim it under one common right, the adverse party having no interest in its apportionment or distribution among them....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The value of the property sued for is not always the matter in dispute: In replevin, for instance, if the action is brought as a means of trying the title to property, the value of the property replevied is the matter in dispute; but, if the replevin is of property distrained for rent, the amount for which avowry is made is the real matter in dispute, and the limit of jurisdiction. Peyton v. Robertson, 9 Wheat. 527 [ 6 L Ed. 151 ]. “When the object of a suit is to apply property worth more to the payment'of a debt for less than the jurisdictional amount, it is the amount of the debt, and not the value of the property, that determines the jurisdiction of this court. This is well illustrated by two eases, in one of which the appeal was taken by the creditor, and in the other by a mortgagee of the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where the land within a particular district was 'assessed for taxation, each owner being liable only for the amount wherewith he was separately charged, and the bill of complaint, filed by a number of them, praying for an injunction against the collection, of the assessment, was "dismissed, and they appealed here, held,' that the several amounts cannot be united to make up -the' sum necessary to give this court jurisdiction.””
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.