Cope v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
331 U.S. 461 · 1947
Citation profile
299 federal appellate · 92 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 788 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. (1975), Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson (1971)
299 federal appellate · 92 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedAnderson v. Andrews (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Chattanooga Foundry & Pipe Works v. City of Atlanta
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 788 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“equity will withhold its relief in such a case where the applicable statute of limitations would bar the concurrent legal remedy.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For jurisdictional purposes, a national bank is a `citizen' of the state in which it is established or located, 28 U.S.C. § 41(16), 28 U.S.C.A. § 41(16), and in that district alone can it be sued, 12 U.S.C.A. § 94.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mo.R.S.1949, Sec. 516.180, V.A.M.S.: “Whenever a cause of action has been fully barred by the laws of the state, territory or country in which it orig inated, said bar shall be a complete defense to any action thereon, brought in any of the courts of this state.””
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.