Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
308 U.S. 66 · 1939
Citation profile
413 federal appellate · 73 district · 161 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 991 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably O'Shea v. Littleton (1974), United States v. United Mine Workers of America (1947)
413 federal appellate · 73 district · 161 state decisions — followed in 27 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
reviewedTreinies v. Sunshine Mining Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan · Stoll v. Gottlieb · Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Pullman Co. v. Jenkins · Baldwin v. Ionwa State Traveling Men's Ass'n
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 991 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The principles of res judicata apply to questions of jurisdiction as well as to other issues,' as well as to jurisdiction of the subject matter as of the parties.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The power of the Idaho court to examine into the jurisdiction of the Washington court is beyond question. Even where the decision against the validity of the original judgment is erroneous, it is a valid exercise of judicial power by the second court. 39”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We do not determine whether the ruling here is inconsistent with the conclusion in those cases where jurisdiction was rested on diversity of citizenship between the applicant and co-citizens who are claimants. [Citing cases.]” Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Company, 308 U.S. 66, 73, note 17 , 60 S.Ct. 48 .”
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.