Colvin v. City of Jacksonville’s Empirical Analysis
157 U.S. 368 · 1895
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1912
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Shields v. Coleman · Maynard v. Hecht · Stevens's Administrator v. Nichols
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the question of jurisdiction alone shall be certified to the Supreme Court from the court below for decision.”
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.