Hooe v. Jamieson’s Empirical Analysis
166 U.S. 395 · 1897
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 29 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2002 · most notably Mitchell v. Maurer (1934), Downes v. Bidwell (1901)
40 federal appellate · 29 district · 5 state decisions
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 Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Barney v. Baltimore City · Smith v. Lyon · Merchants' Cotton-Press Storage Co v. Insurance Co of North America National Fire Ins Co · Corporation of New-Orleans v. Winter
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case at bar no application was made for leave to discontinue as to the three plaintiffs who were citizens of the District of Columbia, and to amend the complaint and proceed with the cause in favor of that one of the plaintiffs alleged to be a citizen of Minnesota. Jurisdiction oE the case as to four plaintiffs could not be maintained on the theory that when the trial terminated it might be retained as to one.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jennings v. Smith““The courts of the United States have no jurisdiction upon the ground of diverse citizenship of cases between citizens of the District of Columbia and citizens of a state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Guggenheim“* * * the members of the American confederacy only are the states contemplated in the constitution.”
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.