Grant v. A. B. Leach & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
280 U.S. 351 · 1930
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Nashville St Ry v. Walters (1935), Manufacturers' Finance Co. v. McKey (1935)
39 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedA. B. Leach & Co. v. Grant (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Harkin v. Brundage · Hale v. Allinson · William Booth v. Ferdinand Clark · Sanger v. Upton · Workman v. Boone
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * But even if this were not the case, the order specifically authorizing and directing the receiver to bring the action in the [federal] district court was one which the common pleas court had jurisdiction to make in the exercise of its discretion and under the construction which it placed upon the statute; and, as such, was not one which, even if erroneous, was subject to the collateral attack which Leach & Company sought to interpose in the [federal] district court. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Wilkerson
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.