Smith v. Lyon’s Empirical Analysis
133 U.S. 315 · 1890
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 47 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 270 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2005 · most notably Tennessee v. Union & Planters' Bank (1894), Ex Parte Shaw (1892)
48 federal appellate · 47 district · 3 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 Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Coal Company v. Blatchford · Corporation of New-Orleans v. Winter · Case of the Sewing Machine Companies
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 270 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"the jurisdiction common to all tlie Circuit Courts of the United States as regards the subject of tlie suit, and as regards the character of the parties, who, by reason of such character, may either as plaintiffs or defendants sustain suits in the Circuit Courts.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * IF there are several coplaintiffs, the intention of the act (the Removal Act) Is that each plaintiff must be competent to sue, and if there' are several codefendants, each defendant must be liable to be sued, or the jurisdiction cannot he entertained.” Smith v. Lyon, 133 U. S. 315 , 319, 10 Sup. Ct. 808 , 801 ( 38 L. Ed. 635 ).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where the interest is joint, each of the persons concerned in that interest must be competent to sue, or liable to be sued, in the courts of the United States.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cuebas v. Cuebas · Camp v. Gress
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.