Erwin v. Barrow’s Empirical Analysis
217 F.2d 522 · 1954
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Holt v. King (1957), Trapp v. Goetz (1966)
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Neirbo Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Angel v. Bullington · Woods v. Interstate Realty Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * These statutes relate to venue and not to jurisdiction. They are concerned with the place of the maintenance of the suit, not the jurisdiction of the court to entertain it. See Neirbo Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., 308 U.S. 165, 167 , 60 S.Ct. 153 , 84 L.Ed. 167 . This suit for the recovery of real property being local and not transitory, is undoubtedly governed by this statute, and we readily agree that literally construed, the suit must be brought in one of the counties where the land is located. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the rule against impairment of federal jurisdiction by the incidence of state law does not preclude the state from closing the doors of federal diversity courts to suitors to whom it has closed its own doors.”
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.