Wirgman v. Persons’s Empirical Analysis
126 F. 449 · 1903
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1945
1 federal appellate ·
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 McLish v. Roff · Mitchell v. Smale · Wilson v. Oswego Tp · Bacon v. Rives · United States v. Jahn
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are disposed to think that there was only one controversy, and that was between the plaintiffs, citizens of New York, and Wirgman, a citizen of Pennsylvania; and we think if Wirgman, because of the relief sought by the complaint, was the only necessary defendant, and the other defendants were only formal or nominal parties, his petition for removal can be sustained as giving 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.