Smith v. McKay’s Empirical Analysis
161 U.S. 355 · 1896
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1958 · most notably Powers v. Chesapeake O Ry Co (1898), Pennsylvania v. Williams (1935)
35 federal appellate · 6 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 Mississippi Mills v. Cohn · Shields v. Coleman · In Re Lehigh Min & Manuf'G Co
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the requisite citizenship of the parties appears, and the subject-matter is such that the Circuit Court is competent to deal with it, the jurisdiction of the court attaches, and whether the court should sustain the complainant’s prayer for equitable relief, or should dismiss the bill with leave to bring an action at law, either would be a valid exercise of jurisdiction. If any error were committed in the exercise of such jurisdiction, it could only be remedied by an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We do not understand that the power of the Circuit Court to hear and determine the cause was denied, but that the appellants contended that the United States had not, by their bill, made a case properly cognizable in a court of equity. The objection was the want of equity,' and not the want of power. The jurisdiction of the Circuit Court was therefore not in issue within the intent and meaning of the act.” 161 U. S. 358 , 16 Sup. 492, 40 L. Ed. 556 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In any case in which the jurisdiction of the court is in issue; in such cases 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.