Goodlett v. Louisville N R’s Empirical Analysis
122 U.S. 391 · 1887
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1983 · most notably Caminetti v. United States (1917), Gerling v. Baltimore Ohio R Co (1894)
45 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 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 Stone v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · Randall v. Baltimore O R · Railway Company v. Whitton's Administrator · Pennsylvania Railroad v. St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad · Railroad Company v. Harris
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It does not seem to admit of question that a eorporatioin of one State, owning property "and doing business in another state 'by permission of the latter, does not thereby become a citizen of this State also. 'And so a corporation of Illinois, authorized by its laws to build a railroad across the State from the Mississippi River to its eastern boundary, may, by the permission of the State of Indiana, extend its road a few miles within the limits of the latter, or, indeed, through the entire State, and may use and operate the line as one road by the permission of the State, without thereby becoming a corporation or a citizen of the State of Indiana; nor does it seem to us that an Act of the Legislature conferring upon this corporation of Illinois by its Illinois corporate name, such powers (to enable it to use and control that part of the road within the State of Indiana) as have been conferred on it by the State which created it, constitutes it a corporation of Indiana. It may not be easy, in all such eases, to distinguish between the purpose to create a new corporation which shall owe its existence to the law or Statute under consideration, and the intent to enable the corporation already in existence under laws of another State to exercise its functions in the State where it is so received. The latter class of laws is common in authorizing insurance companies, banking companies, and others to do business in other States than those which have chartered them." To make sueh a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A corporation created by the laws of one state may carry on business in another either by virtue of being created a corporation by the laws of .the latter also, or by virtue of a license, permission or authority granted by the laws of the latter state to act in that state under its charter from the former state. In the first alternative it cannot remove into a federal court an action brought against it in a court of the latter state by a citizen of that state, because it is a citizen of the same state with him. In the second alternative, it can remove the suit because it is a citizen of a different state from that of plaintiff. There is no new corporation in such case, but only added powers and privileges granted to an existing body, which remains a corporation of the state by which it was originally chartered. Removal is not precluded by the fact that defendant foreign corporation owns property or does business in the state where the action is brought or pending, and of which plaintiff is a citizen; or files its articles of incorporation with the secretary of that state, or that suit and service against it are authorized in the state; or that it has a resident agent within the state upon whom process may be served.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To make sueh a company a corporation of another State, the language used must imply creation or adoption in sueh form as to confer the power usually exercised over corporations by the State, or by the Legislature, and sueh' allegiance as a State corporation owes to its creator. The mere grant of privileges or powers to it as an existing corporation, without more does not do this, and does not make it a citizen of the State conferring such powers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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