Clay v. Field’s Empirical Analysis
138 U.S. 464 · 1891
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 23 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1999 · most notably Zahn v. International Paper Co. (1973), Thomson v. Gaskill (1942)
91 federal appellate · 23 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 Market Company v. Hoffman · Stewart v. Dunham · Gibson v. Shufeldt · Handley v. Stutz
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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general principle observed in 'all is that if persons be joined in a suit in equity or admiralty, and have a common and undivided interest, though separable as between themselves, the amount of their joint claim or liability will be the test of jurisdiction; but where their interests are distinct, and they are joined for the sake of convenience only, and because they form a class of parties whose rights or liabilities arose out of the same transaction, or have relation to a common fund or mass of property sought to be administered, such distinct demands or liabilities cannot be aggregated together ior the purpose of smug this court jurisdiction by appeal, but each must stand or fail by itself alone.””
12 later decisions 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.