Roberts v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
144 U.S. 653 · 1892
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1988 · most notably McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. (1936), Gilbert v. David (1915)
64 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Central Transportation Co. v. Pullman's Palace Car Co. · Continental Insurance v. Rhoads · Little v. Giles · Brown v. Keene
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(2) Since the act of June 1, 1872, all defenses are open to a defendant in the United States circuit court, under any form of plea, answer, or demurrer, which would have boon open to him under like pleading in the courts of the stale within which the circuit court is held.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Rowley · Scott v. Hoover““The necessary consequence is that the allegation of the citizenship of the' parties, being a material allegation properly made in the petition, was put in issue by the answer, and, like other affirmative and material allegations made by the plaintiff and denied by the defendant, must be proved by the plaintiff. The record "showing no proof or finding upon this essential point, on which the jurisdiction of the circuit court depended, the judgment must be reversed, with costs for want of jurisdiction,” etc.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cole v. Carson · Hill v. Walker“that in all cases where a final judgment or decree shall be rendered in the Circuit Court of the United States in which there shall have been a question involving the jurisdiction of the court, the party against whom the judgment or decree is rendered shall be entitled to an appeal or writ of error to the Supreme Court of the United States to review said judgment or decree without reference to the amount of the same ; but in cases where the deCTee or judgment does not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars the Supreme Court shall not review any question raised upon the record except such question of jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.