Morey v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
123 U.S. 56 · 1887
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1986 · most notably Thermtron Products, Inc. v. Hermansdorfer (1976), Employers Reinsurance Corp. v. Bryant (1937)
24 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 Railroad Company v. Wiswall
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever any cause shall be removed from any state court into any circuit court of, the United States, and the circuit court shall decide that the cause was improperly removed, and order the same to be remanded to the state court from whence it came, such remand shall be immediately carried into execution, and no appeal or writ of error from the decision of the circuit court so remanding such cause shall he allowed.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i)t is difficult to see what more could be done to make the action of (remand) final, for all the purposes of the removal, and not the subject of review . . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Sec. 5. That if, in any suit commenced in a Circuit Court or removed from a state court to a Circuit Court of the United States, it shall appear to the satisfaction of said Circuit Court, at any time after such suit has been brought or removed thereto, that such suit does not really and substantially involve a dispute or controversy properly within the jurisdiction of said Circuit Court, or that the parties to said suit have been improperly or collusively made or joined, either as plaintiffs' or defendants, for the purpose of creating a case cognizable or removable under this act, the said Circuit Court shall proceed no further therein, but shall dismiss the suit or remand-it to the court from which it was removed as justice may require, and shall make such order as to costs as shall be just; but the order of said Circuit Court dismissing or remanding said cause to the state court shall be reviewable by the Supreme Court on writ of error or appeal, as the case may be.” Section 5 ( 18 Stat. 470 , 472).”
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.