St Joseph Co v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
167 U.S. 659 · 1897
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Ex Parte: Edward T Young (1908), Fayerweather v. Ritch (1904)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on St Louis Ry Co v. James · Hanford v. Davies · Memphis v. State of Alabama · Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company v. Wheeler
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Not every mere allegation of the existence of a federal question in a controversy will suffice for that purpose. There must be a real substantive question, on whieh the case may be made to turn. Nor can jurisdiction be inferred argumentatively from the averments in the pleadings, but the averments should be positive. Hanford v. Davies, 163 U. S. 273 , 279 [ 16 S. Ct. 1051 , 41 L. Ed. 157 ].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While a railroad company owning and running a line running through several states may receive and exercise powers granted by each, and may, for many purposes, be regarded as a corporation of each, such legislation does not avail to make the same corporation a citizen of every state it passes through, within the meaning of the jurisdiction clause of the constitution of the United States.” Page 663, 167 U. S., and page 927, 17 Sup. Ct.”
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.