Laing v. Rigney’s Empirical Analysis
160 U.S. 531 · 1896
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1993 · most notably Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. (1912), Lion Bonding & Surety Co. v. Karatz (1923)
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · John Den James Murray and John Kayser v. The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company John Den James B Murray et al. · Taylor v. Taintor · Scott v. McNeal · St. Louis v. Rutz
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In, the absence of any statutory direction on the subject, and of any reported decision of the Supreme Court of that state, we are justified in finding the law to be as declared in the very case in hand, where the chancellor of the Chancery Court of New Jersey has entered a final decree based upon an original bill, the process under which was served upon the defendant within, the state, and upon a supplemental bill, a copy of which with a rule to plead was served upon the defendant without the state. So long as this decree stands, it must be deemed to express the law of the state.””
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.