McCabe v. Illinois Cent. R. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
13 F. 827 · 1882
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1947
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Paul v. Virginia · Ex parte Schollenberger · The Louisville Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad Company v. Thomas W Letson · Railroad Company v. Harris · Tioga Railroad v. Blossburg and Corning Railroad
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A foreign corporation that by the laws of a state witliin which it comes on business can sue and. be sued is not a nonresident in the sense that would prevent it from setting up the statute of limitations as a defense in an action ■against it; and section 2533 of the Code of Iowa, that provides that ‘the time during which a defendant is a nonresident of the state shall not be in- eluded in computing tlie period of limitation,’ lias no reference to such a. case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.