North American Transportation & Trading Co. v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
178 U.S. 262 · 1900
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 23 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1989 · most notably St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co (1938), Globe Refining Company v. Landa Cotton Oil Company (1903)
29 federal appellate · 23 district · 6 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 Barry v. Edmunds · Scott v. Donald · Mexican Nat Co v. Davidson Davidson · Sere and Laralde v. Pitot
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the plaintiff asserts as his cause of action a claim which he cannot be legally permitted to sustain by evidence, a mere ad damnum clause will not confer jurisdiction on the Circuit Court; but the court, on motion or demurrer, or of its own motion, will dismiss the suit.””
2 later decisions 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.