Missouri State Life Insurance v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
290 U.S. 199 · 1933
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 67 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 331 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Cohen v. Office Depot, Inc. (2000), Clark v. National Travelers Life Insurance (1975)
97 federal appellate · 67 district · 29 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 People of Sioux County v. National Surety Co. · Mutual Life Insurance v. Marsh
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 331 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the state court the present respondent sought to enforce the liability imposed by statute for his benefit — to collect something to which the law gave him a right. The amount so demanded became part of the matter put in controversy by the complaint, and not mere “costs” excluded from the reckoning by the jurisdictional and removal statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Supreme Court has long held that when a statute permits recovery of attorney's fees a reasonable estimate may be used in calculating the necessary jurisdictional amount in a removal proceeding based upon diversity of citizenship.”
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.