Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York v. City of New Orleans’s Empirical Analysis
205 U.S. 395 · 1907
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 district · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1984 · most notably Miller Bros. v. Maryland (1954), Curry v. McCanless (1939)
4 federal appellate · 11 district · 82 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Union Refrigerator Transit Company v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Southern Pac Co v. Denton · Barrow Co v. Kane · Blackstone v. Miller · Blake v. McClung
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Cash and credits and bills receivable are to be taken into account merely because they represent the capital and are not • to be omitted because their owner happens to have a domicile in another state.””
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.