Anderson v. Watt’s Empirical Analysis
138 U.S. 694 · 1891
Citation profile
126 federal appellate · 47 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 395 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. (1936), Grupo Dataflux v. Atlas Global Group, L. P. (2004)
126 federal appellate · 47 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Mullen v. Torrance · Morris v. Gilmer · Rubber Company v. Goodyear · Robertson v. Cease
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 395 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“declares all citizens of the United States to be citizens 'of the state where they reside.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hewitt v. Story · Reavis v. Reavis““If each of the indispensable adverse parties is not competent to sue or he sued, then the circuit court cannot maintain cognizance of the suit.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““And the inquiry is determined by the condition of the parties at the commencement of the suit.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.