Corporation of New-Orleans v. Winter’s Empirical Analysis
14 U.S. 91 · 1816
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 20 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2013 · most notably Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan (1884), City of Indianapolis v. Chase Nat Bank of City of New York (1941)
32 federal appellate · 20 district · 9 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 Anderson v. Longden
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[H]aving elected to sue jointly, the court is incapable of distinguishing their case, so far as respects jurisdiction, from one in which they were compelled to unite.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It has been attempted to distinguish a territory from the District of Columbia, but the court is of opinion that this distinction cannot be maintained. They may differ in many respects, but neither of them is a state in the sense in. which that term is used in the constitution. Every reason assigned for the opinion of the.court that a citizen of Columbia was not capable of suing in the courts of the United States under the judiciary act is equally applicable to a citizen of a territory. ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the case of Hepburn & Dundas v. Ellzey, this court determined, on mature consideration, that a citizen of the district of Columbia could not maintain a suit in the circuit court of the United States. That opinion is still retained.”
1 later decision 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.