Cameron v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
127 U.S. 322 · 1888
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 46 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2016 · most notably Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley (1908), Bender v. Williamsport Area School District (1986)
44 federal appellate · 46 district · 6 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 Barney v. Baltimore City · Robertson v. Cease · Hilton v. Dickinson · Brown v. Keene
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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case in this court must be tried upon the record made in the Circuit Court. In this instance there has been a removal from a tribunal of a state into a circuit court of the United States, and there is no precedent known to us which authorizes an amendment to be made, even in the Circuit Court, by which grounds of jurisdiction may be made to appear, which were not presented to the state court on the motion for removal.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This court has always been particular in requiring a distinct statement of the citizenship of the parties and of the particular state in which it is claimed, in order to sustain the jurisdiction.””
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.