Mexican Central Railway Co. v. Eckman’s Empirical Analysis
187 U.S. 429 · 1903
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 23 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1997 · most notably Smith v. Sperling (1957), Mecom v. Fitzsimmons Drilling Co. (1931)
80 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 Ex Parte Shaw · Delaware County Commissioners v. Diebold Safe & Lock Co. · Horner v. United States · City of New Orleans v. Whitney Whitney · United States v. Jahn
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * that representatives may stand upon their own citizenship in the federal courts irrespectively of the citizenship of the persons whom they represent, — such as executors, administrators, guardians, trustees, receivers, etc.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“had the right to bring suit in his own name”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The jurisdiction of the Federal courts depends, not on the relative situation of the parties concerned in interest, but on the relative situation of the parties named in the record. Mexican Central R. Co. v. Eckman, 187 U.S. 429 , 23 S.Ct. 211 , 47 L.Ed. 245, 247 (1903).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Baker
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.