Minnesota v. Northern Securities Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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181 federal appellate · 95 district · 31 state decisions

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 535 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “only prescribes a rule by which courts, Federal and state, are to be guided when a question arises in the progress of a pending suit as to the faith and credit to be given by the court to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of a State other than that in which the court is sitting.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thompson v. Thompson · Thompson v. Thompson

2. “arises under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nevada-California Power Co. v. Hamilton · Utah Const. Co. v. State Highway Commission of Wyoming

3. ““These eases establish, beyond further question in this court, the rule that, under existing statutes regulating the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, a case cannot be removed from a state court, as one arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States, unless the plaintiff’s complaint, bill or declaration shows it to be a case of that character. ‘If it does not appear at the outset,’ this court has quite recently said, ‘that the suit is one of whieh the Circuit Court at the time its jurisdiction is invoked could properly take cognizance, the suit must be dismissed.’ ””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Miller v. Clifford · Oregon v. Three Sisters Irr. Co.