Glenwood Light Water Company v. Mutual Light Heat & Power Company’s Empirical Analysis
239 U.S. 121 · 1915
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 67 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 366 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2010 · most notably McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. (1936), Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission (1977)
125 federal appellate · 67 district · 4 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
Relies on Bitterman v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Hunt v. New York Cotton Exchange · Scott v. Donald · McNeill v. Southern Railway 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 366 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district court erred in testing the jurisdiction by the amount that it would cost defendant to [comply with injunction].”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The jurisdictional amount is to be tested by the' value of the object to be gained by complainant.””
6 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.