John Gordon v. James Longest’s Empirical Analysis
41 U.S. 97 · 1842
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2004 · most notably St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co (1938), McClellan v. Carland (1910)
6 federal appellate · 7 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Tile damages claimed in the writ and declaration were unquestionably the sum in controversy. This is not an open question. It lias been often decided tluu. if the plaintiff shall recover less than $500, it cannot affect the jurisdiction of the court; a greater sum being claimed in the writ. But in such cases the plaintiff does not recover his costs, and at the discretion of 1lie court he may be adjudged to pay costs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is the duty of the State court to ‘ proceed no further in the cause,’ and every step subsequently taken in the exercise of jurisdiction in the case, whether in the same court or in the Court of Appeals, is coram non judice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Virginia v. Rives
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.