Camp v. Gress’s Empirical Analysis
244 F. 121 · 1917
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
January 1931
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Barney v. Baltimore City · Hiram Clearwater v. Solomon Meredith Pleasant Johnson and Thomas Tyner
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no civil suit shall be brought in any district court against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant; but where the jurisdiction-is founded only on the fact that the action is between citizens of different States, suit shall be brought only in the district of the residence of either the plaintiff or the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Camp v. Gress“when there are several defendants . . . and one or more of them are neither inhabitants of nor found within the district in which the suit is brought, and do not voluntarily appear,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Camp v. Gress
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.