Ohio River Contract Co. v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
244 U.S. 68 · 1917
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Gulf Offshore Company v. Mobil Oil Corporation (1981), Hoskins v. Maricle (2004)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 46 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 Gromer v. Standard Dredging Co. · Western Life Indemnity Company of Illinois v. Clarence Rupp
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an action for personal injuries being in its nature transitory and susceptible of being brought in any jurisdiction in which the defendant may be impleaded, there is no foundation for the contention that the [state] court had no jurisdiction over the subject-matter of the suit.”
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.