Stevens v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
130 U.S. 230 · 1889
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 27 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 200 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Great Southern Fire Proof Hotel Co. v. Jones (1900), Margaret Williamson v. Katherine Osenton (1914)
30 federal appellate · 27 district · 17 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 Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan · Morris v. Gilmer · Robertson v. Cease · Metcalf v. City of Watertown · Continental Insurance v. Rhoads
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 200 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that in all cases where a final judgment or decree shall be rendered in the Circuit Court of the United States in which there shall have been a question involving the jurisdiction of the court, the party against whom the judgment or decree is rendered shall be entitled to an appeal or writ of error to the Supreme Court of the United States to review said judgment or decree without reference to the amount of the same ; but in cases where the deCTee or judgment does not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars the Supreme Court shall not review any question raised upon the record except such question of jurisdiction.”
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.