Evans v. Dillingham’s Empirical Analysis
43 F. 177 · 1890
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2014
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Barton v. Barbour · Moore v. Moore · Missouri Pac. Ry. Co. v. Texas Pac. Ry. Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is urged by defendant’s counsel with certainly some apparent force that it is material what is the sound construction of the act of 1877 affecting this case; that the fact that it must be construed in order to determine the plaintiff’s right to sue presents such a federal question as authorizes the removal. Whether this view be sound .or not, it seems to me that in the as yet unsettled state of judicial opinion as to the correct construction of the provisions of the act on. the subject the petition for removal does present a federal question, which' thé‘ defendant .is entitled to have passed upon by the United States courts.””
1 later decision 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.