The Northern Indiana Railroad Company v. The Michigan Central Railroad Company’s Empirical Analysis
56 U.S. 233 · 1853
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 12 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2003 · most notably Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson (1968), Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson (1912)
38 federal appellate · 12 district · 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Louisville Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad Company v. Thomas W Letson · Bank of the United States v. Deveaux · Massie v. Watts · Conway's Executors and Devisees v. Alexander
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Bin, wherever the subject-matter in controversy is local, and lies beyond the limit of the district, no jurisdiction attaches to the Circuit Court sitting in it. An action of ejectment cannot be maintained in the district of Michigan for land in any other district. Nor can an action of trespass quare clausum fregit be prosecuted where the act complained of was not done in the district. Both of these actions are local in their character, and must be prosecuted where the process of the court can reach the locus in quo.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * in a case like the present, where a court cannot but see that the interest of the New Albany Company must be vitally affected, if the relief prayed by the complainants be given, the court must refuse to exercise jurisdiction in the case, or become the instrument of injustice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is impossible to grant the relief prayed, without deeply affecting the New Albany Company [which had not been joined],”
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.