Merchants Heat & Light Co. v. J. B. Clow & Sons’s Empirical Analysis
204 U.S. 286 · 1907
Citation profile
121 federal appellate · 21 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 329 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Moore v. New York Cotton Exchange (1926), Freeman v. Bee Machine Co. (1943)
121 federal appellate · 21 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 24 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 Goldey v. Morning News · St. Clair v. Cox · De Lima v. Bidwell · Southern Pac Co v. Denton · Old Wayne Mutual Life Ass'n v. McDonough
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 329 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]y setting up its counterclaim the defendant became a plaintiff in its turn, invoked the jurisdiction of the court in the same action and by invoking submitted to it.”
9 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.