Bishop v. Vose’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2007 · most notably Saxlehner v. Eisner & Mendelson Co. (1900), Stewart v. Ramsay (1916)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From the first it has been the law, both common law and statute law, that a foreign citizen, if found here, whether here on business or pleasure or hastening through the state with railroad speed, is liable to be sued like any other person and is not entitled to any personal or peculiar immunity. And we are at a loss to discover why our citizens should be obliged to go into a foreign jurisdiction in pursuit of their debtors, when those debtors are here and can be sued here and can receive here that consideration which is meted out to all indiscriminately.”
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.