Morris v. Clark Const. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
140 F. 756 · 1905
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1920
2 district ·
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 Ex parte Schollenberger · Mexican Nat Co v. Davidson Davidson · Stalker v. Pullman's Palace-Car Co.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil-nature, at common law or in equity,where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value oh two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority, or in which controversy the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or in which there shall be a controversy between citizens of different States, in which the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value aforesaid; . . . But no person shall be arrested in one district for trial in another in any civil action before a. Circuit or District Court; and no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against any person by any original process or. proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant;-but where the jurisdiction is founded only on the fact that the action is between citizens of different States, suit shall be brought only in the district of the residence of either the plaintiff or the defendant; . . “Sec. 2. That any suit of a civil nature, at law or in equity arising .under the Constitution dr laws of the United States, or treaties made; or which shall, be made, under their authority, of which -the Circuit Courts of the United States are given original jurisdiction by the preced”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex parte Wisner
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.