Arkansas v. Kansas & Texas Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
183 U.S. 185 · 1901
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 26 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 252 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian (1936), Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. (1950)
41 federal appellate · 26 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Tennessee v. Union & Planters' Bank · Postal Telegraph Cable Co v. State of Alabama · Robb v. Connolly · In re Rahrer
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 252 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t has been settled that a case cannot be removed from a state court into the circuit court of the United States on the sole ground that it is one arising under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States, unless that appears by plaintiff's statement of his own claim.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““At law the plaintiff is never expec-ted to state matters which should come more properly from the other side. It is sufficient for each party to make out his own case. It is sufficient for the plaintiff to state his own cause of action, and he should not anticipate his adversary’s defense, for the reason that the latter may never make the defense sought to guarded against. * * * And it is equally well settled that a- suggestion in a complaint in any action at law that a defendant may or will set up a defense based upon a state statute or repugnant to the Constitution, does not make the suit one arising under the Constitution, and allegations of the complaint beyond those which state a cause of action are mere surplusage. When the statement of the plaintiff’s cause of action in legal and logical form, such as is required by the rules of good pleading, does not disclose that the suit is one arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States,'then the suit is not one arising under that Constitution or those laws, and the Circuit Court has no jurisdiction.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But even assuming that the bill showed upon its face that the relief sought would be inconsistent with the power to regulate commerce or with regulations established by Congress, or with the 14th Amendment, as contended, it would only demonstrate that the bill could not be maintained at all, and not that the cause of action arose under the Constitution or laws of the United States.””
3 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.