Jacob v. City of New York’s Empirical Analysis
315 U.S. 752 · 1942
Citation profile
163 federal appellate · 29 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 439 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore (1979), Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann (1943)
163 federal appellate · 29 district · 83 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedJacob v. City of New York (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. Smith · Beadle v. Spencer · Haddix v. O'Brien · McCarthy v. Palmer
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 439 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of jury trial in civil cases at common law is a basic and fundamental feature of our system of federal jurisprudence which is protected by the Seventh Amendment. A right so fundamental and sacred to the citizen, whether guaranteed by the Constitution or provided by statute, should be jealously guarded by the courts.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“case is close and a jury might find either way ... is no reason for a court to usurp the function of the jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * look in the tool closet and see if there was one in there * * *”
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.