Central Trust Co. v. McGeorge’s Empirical Analysis
151 U.S. 129 · 1894
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 29 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 208 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably General Inv Co v. Lake Shore & M S Ry Co (1922), Gerling v. Baltimore Ohio R Co (1894)
68 federal appellate · 29 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Shaw · Ex parte Schollenberger · Southern Pac Co v. Denton · First National Bank v. Morgan · St Louis Ry Co v. McBride
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 208 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Assunie that it is true, as defendant alleges, that this is not a case in which jurisdiction is founded only on the fact that the controversy is between citizens of different states, but that it comes within the scope of that other clause, which provides that ‘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,’ still the right to insist upon suit only in the one district is a personal privilege which lie may waive and he does waive it by pleading to the merits.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is scarcely necessary to say that, as the defendant company had submitted itself to the jurisdiction of the court, such voluntary action could not be overruled at the instance of stockholders and creditors, not parties to the suit as. brought, but who were permitted to become such by an intervening petition.” ' ,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The time of filing a petition for the removal of a case from a state court into the Circuit Court of the United States for trial is not a fact in its nature essential to the jurisdiction of the national court under the Constitution of the United States, like the fundamental condition of a controversy between cit" izens of different states. But the direction as to the Time of filing the petition is more analogous to the direction that a civil suit within the original jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of the United States shall be brought in a certain district, a noncompliance with which is waived by a defendant who does not seasonably object that the suit is brought in the wrong district.””
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.