Thorburn v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
225 F. 613 · 1915
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1970
5 federal appellate · 6 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Goldey v. Morning News · Dewey v. City of Des Moines · James Moody Vaughan v. Henry Northup James Moody · David Stacy v. J B Thrasher for the Use of William Sellers
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to permit the plaintiff to sue the defendant wherever he could catch him”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The Constitution, in giving to federal courts jurisdiction over controversies between diverse citizens by sovereign power, gives an authority pro tanto over domestic administration which does not exist between independent states. It might, indeed, have gone further and made effective its own decrees, assuming the total administration of decedents’ estates, except for the fact that this might involve purely domestic matters, and perhaps because it had no machinery.””
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.