Lawrence v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
143 U.S. 215 · 1892
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 20 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013 · most notably Hovey v. Elliott (1897), Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co. (1909)
40 federal appellate · 20 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 Payne v. Hook · Reynolds v. Stockton · Union Nat Bank of Chicago v. Bank of Kansas City · Paulina Whiting v. The Bank of the United States · James Moody Vaughan v. Henry Northup James Moody
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever doubt may have existed as to the validity of the former decree, as binding the assets of the deceased in the hands of the administrator before the decree upon the bill of review, is removed by the latter decree; and, by the effect of this decree, the former decree must be treated, for the purposes of this case, as a judgment rendered by a federal court of competent jurisdiction and binding the assets of his intestate in his hands, just as if it had been rendered in a federal court held in the state of Illinois.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Benker v. Meyer““Administrators and executors appointed in any of the states, territories or districts of the United States under the laws thereof, may sue in any of the courts of the state, in their representative capacity, to the same and like effect as if such administrators and executors had been qualified under the laws of this state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Benker v. Meyer““The general equity jurisdiction of the circuit court of the United States to administer as between citizens of different states the assets of deceased persons within its jurisdiction cannot be defeated or impaired by laws of a state undertaking 1o give, jurisdiction to its own courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wahl v. Franz
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.