Adams v. May’s Empirical Analysis
27 F. 907 · 1886
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1945
1 district ·
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The petition (for removal) in this case states, in substance, that Adams & Co., the plaintiffs, are citizens of Pennsylvania. But who are Adams & Co.? Citizenship camiot.be predicated of a firm eo nomine. The individual names of the partners must be set out, and citizenship alleged of each and every of them. The state statute authorizing suits to be brought in the partnership name is inapplicable here. No doubt a cause commenced in a state court in the firm name, without giving the individual names, may be removed to this court; but the petition for removal should state the individual names and citizenship of the members of the firm, and show that no one of them is a citizen of the same state with an adversary party in the controversy. At all events, this diversity of citizenship should appear in some pal-t of the record, when the case comes here from the state court. This nowhere appears in the present record.””
2 later decisions 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.