Shields v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
157 U.S. 168 · 1895
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 27 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1981 · most notably Lion Bonding & Surety Co. v. Karatz (1923), Wabash Railroad Company v. Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University (1908)
36 federal appellate · 27 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Cooper v. Reynolds · Moran v. Sturges · Heidritter v. Elizabeth Oil-Cloth Co. · United States v. Jahn
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“solely upon the question of jurisdiction,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. The Bayonne · Van Wagenen v. Sewall““While the validity of the appointment made by the Circuit Court on June <5, 3892, cannot be doubted, yet, when that court thereafter accepted a bond in lieu of the property, discharged the receiver, and ordered him to turn over the property to the railroad, and such surrender was made in obedience to this order, the property then became free for the action of any other court of competent jurisdiction. It will never do to hold that after a court, accepting security in lieu of the property, has vacated the order which it has once made appointing a receiver and turned the property back to the original owner, the mere continuance of the suit operates to prevent any other court from touching that property.” Shields v. Coleman, 157 U. S. 368 , 15 Sup. Ct. 570 , 39 L. Ed. 660 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is not necessary that the word ‘ certify ’ be formally used. It is sufficient if there is a plain declaration that the single matter which is by the record sent up to this court for decision is a question of' jurisdiction, and the precise question clearly, fully and separately stated. No mere suggestion that the jurisdiction of the court was in issue will answer. This court will not of itself search, nor follow counsel in their search of the record, to ascertain whether the judgment of the trial court did or did not turn on some question of jurisdiction. But the record must affirmatively sh-ow that the trial court sends up for consideration a single definite question of jurisdiction.”
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.