Mossman, Surviving v. Higginson, Surviving Partner’s Empirical Analysis
4 U.S. 11 · 1800
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Verlinden B. v. v. Central Bank of Nigeria (1983), Burrus (1890)
32 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 Daviel Jackson v. John Twentyman · Bingham v. Cabot
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Clause). In Mossman v. Higginson, 4 Dall. 12, 13, 1 L.Ed. 720 (1800), for instance, the Court stated: 44 [The] 11th section of the judiciary act can and must receive a construction consistent with the constitution. It says, it is true, in general terms, that the circuit court shall have cognisance of suits”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“but ... the legislative power of conferring jurisdiction on the federal courts, is, in this respect, confined to suits between citizens and foreigners. 45 The Estate's argument that section 9 requires one of the parties to be a citizen was explicitly rejected by the Supreme Court in Verlinden. The Supreme Court held that”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.