Gorman v. Havird’s Empirical Analysis
141 U.S. 206 · 1891
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1937 · most notably Morgan v. Devine (1915), Baltimore Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company v. United States (1911)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 Hilton v. Dickinson · Lee v. Watson · Gray v. Blanchard · Tintsman v. National Bank · Jenness v. Citizens' National Bank
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true, as a general rule, that, where judgment goes for the clefemlant, the amount of the plaintiff’s claim is the test of jurisdiction; hut this rule is subject to the onalification that the demand shall appear to have been made in good faith for such amount. If it appear clearly from the whole record that under no aspect of the case the plaintiff could recover the full amount of his claim, this court will decline to assume jurisdiction. If. for instance, a greater amount than ?5,000 were claimed in the ad damnum clause of the declaration, and the bill of particulars showed the actual claim to be less, the latter would determine the jurisdiction. Examples of the distinction between the sum demanded and the sum actually in dispute are frequent in the-decisions of .this court.””
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.