Lambert Run Coal Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
258 U.S. 377 · 1922
Citation profile
358 federal appellate · 167 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,128 later decisions (58 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Minnesota v. United States (1939), General Inv Co v. Lake Shore & M S Ry Co (1922)
358 federal appellate · 167 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBaltimore & O. R. v. Lambert Run Coal Co. (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Fair v. Kohler Die & Specialty Co. · American Well Works Company v. Layne & Bowler Company E · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Illinois Central Railroad · State of Louisiana v. William Gibbs McAdoo
Cited together with General Inv Co v. Lake Shore & M S Ry Co · Freeman v. Bee Machine Co. · Minnesota v. United States · American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · Venner v. Michigan Central Railroad
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 1,128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jurisdiction of the federal court on removal is, in a limited sense, a derivative jurisdiction. If the state court lacks jurisdiction of the subject-matter or of the parties, the federal court acquires none, although it might in a like suit originally brought there have had jurisdiction.””
40 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.