Ellis v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
16 F. 4 · 1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1938
1 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 Davis v. Gray · Buck v. Colbath
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A case, therefore, depending upon the inquiry whether the marshal or his deputy has rightfully executed a lawful precept directed to the former from a court of the United States is one arising under the laws of the United States, for, as this court has said, cases arising under the laws of tlie United States are such as grow out of the legislation of congress, whether they constitute the right or privilege or claim or protection or defense of the party, in whole or in part, by whom they are asserted. This case was one arising- under the laws of the United States, and therefore removable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hurst v. Cobb
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.