Watson v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
13 F. 540 · 1882
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1949
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Corporation of New-Orleans v. Winter · McGavock v. Woodlief · Hepburn & Dundas v. Ellzey · Phelan v. Gardner · Knapp v. . Wallace
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is very doubtful if this ruling would now be made if the question was one of first impression; and it is to be hoped it may yet be reviewed and overthrown. By it, and upon a narrow and technical construction of the word ‘state,’ unsupported by any argument worthy of the able and distinguished judge who announced the opinion of the court, the large and growing population of American citizens resident in the District of Columbia and the eight territories of the United States are deprived of privileges accorded to all other American citizens, as well as aliens, of going into the national courts when obliged to assert or defend their legal rights away from home. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Ullock
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.