Fisk v. Henarie’s Empirical Analysis
142 U.S. 459 · 1892
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 14 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1989 · most notably Tennessee v. Union & Planters' Bank (1894), The Paquete Habana (1900)
30 federal appellate · 14 district · 17 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 In re Pennsylvania Co. · Ayers v. Watson · Smith v. Lyon · Hess v. Reynolds · Hyde v. Ruble
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The attempt was manifestly to restrain the volume of litigation pouring into the federal courts. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Any oilier suit of a civil nature, at law or in equity, of wliicli tiie circuit courts of the United States are given jurisdiction by the preceding section, and which are now pending, or which may hereafter be brought, in any state «ourf, may be removed into the circuit court of the United States for tlie proper district by the defendant or defendants therein, being non-residents of that state. And when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, then either one or more of the defendants actually interested in snch controversy may remove said suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parkinson v. Barr““Our opinion is that the circuit court must be legally (not merely morally) satisfied of the truth of the allegation that, from prejudice or local influence, the defendant will not be able to obtain justice in the state court. * * * The amount and manner of proof required in each ease must be left to the discretion of the court itself. If the petition for removal states the facts upon which the allegation is founded, and that petition be verified by affidavit of a person or persons in whom the court has confidence, this may be regarded as prima facie proof sufficient to satisfy the conscience of the court. If more should be required by the court, more should be offered.””
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.