Edwin Virgin Sr’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Thompson Ex Rel. Thompson · Oneida Indian Nation of New York State v. County of Oneida New York · National Farmers Union Insurance Companies 27 v. Crow Tribe of Indians · Albert Shulthis v. D a McDougal
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A suit to enforce a right which takes its origin in the laws of the United States is not necessarily, or for that reason alone, one arising under those laws, for a suit does not so arise unless it really and substantially involves a dispute or controversy respecting the validity, construction or effect of such a law, upon the determination of which the result depends. This is especially so of a suit involving rights to land acquired under a law of the United States. If it were not, every suit to establish title to land in the central and western states would so arise, as all titles in those states are traceable back to those laws.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Federal land patents ... do not provide bases for federal question Jurlsdlctlon pH Hilgeford v. Peoples Bank, 776 F.2d 176, 178 (7th Cir.1985) (per curiam) ("It is well settled .., that a controversy regarding land has never been regarded as presenting a federal question simply because one of the parties to it has derived his title from a patent or under an act of Congress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Flederal courts have traditionally been inhospitable forums for plaintiffs asserting federal-question jurisdiction of possessory land claims.... [Thhe grant of a land patent ... carries with it no - guarantee of continuing federal interest and certainly carries with it no indefinitely redeemable passport into federal court,”
1 later decision 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.