Connell v. Smiley’s Empirical Analysis
156 U.S. 335 · 1895
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 23 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1949 · most notably Northern Securities Company v. United States (1904), Powers v. Chesapeake O Ry Co (1898)
21 federal appellate · 23 district · 9 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 Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan · Gerling v. Baltimore Ohio R Co · Barney v. Latham · Ayers v. Watson · Louisville v. Ide
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the petition for removal was filed in time it is immaterial to consider, as neither Tenney nor Lay, who petitioned for removal, nor Connell, who consented as a party and participated as their attorney, can now raise the objection.” (Page 339.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We find ourselves at liberty to decline to deprive him of his decree on the ground that the cause was not rightfully transferred.””
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.