Evers v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
156 U.S. 527 · 1895
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1983 · most notably Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank (1940), City of Indianapolis v. Chase Nat Bank of City of New York (1941)
58 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 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 Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · Meyer v. Construction Co. · Ex Parte Tobias Watkins · Pacific Railroad v. Ketchum · Grignon's Lessee v. Astor
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even upon tbe theory of the plaintiff, to authorize the court to hold the. decree in that case void in a collateral proceeding, it was necessary to show beyond any controversy that, upon the record, the court could not have had jurisdiction. This the pleader has failed to do.””
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.