Murray v. Holden’s Empirical Analysis
2 F. 740 · 1880
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1927
2 district ·
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 Blackwell v. Braun
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One of the objects of the act of 1875 was to prevent the abuses which had been practiced under the acts of 1866 and 1867, which allowed a removal at any time before the final hearing. It was evidently the purpose of Congress to fix an earlier and a definite time, which would not permit , the litigant to -experiment in the state court until satisfied he would fail there, and then change his forum. In all the states there is, by law or rule, a trial term — i. e., a term at which a cause may for the first time be called for trial. In practice, but few contested cases are tried at the first trial term, and it often happens that controversies arise upon questions of pleading, so that, as in this case, no issues of fact are joined at that term. It is nevertheless the term at which, within the meaning of the law, such cases could first be tried, and therefore is the term at * * * which the petition for removal must be filed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.