Sherman v. Grinnell’s Empirical Analysis
123 U.S. 679 · 1887
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2006 · most notably Lindh v. Murphy (1997), Collett Kitpatrick v. Texas and Pacific Railway Co (1949)
13 federal appellate · 4 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. Grant · Railroad Company v. Wiswall · Morey v. Lockhart
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is the logical result of what has already been decided. Until the act of 1875 there was no such jurisdiction. Railroad Co. v. Wiswall, 23 Wall, 507 . The provision of that act giving the jurisdiction was repealed by the act of 1887 without any reservation as to pending cases, the proviso in the repealing section having reference ‘ only to the jurisdiction of the circuit court and the disposition of the suit on its merits. ’ As a consequence of this the repeal operated to take away jurisdiction in cases where the order to remand had been made, but no appeal or writ of error taken, because ‘ if a law conferring jurisdiction is repealed without a reservation as to pending eases, all such cases fall with the law.’ It follows that we have no jurisdiction of this writ of error, iuid it is accordingly dismissed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Birdseye v. Shaeffer
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.