Ross v. City of Ft. Wayne’s Empirical Analysis
63 F. 466 · 1894
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1994
9 federal appellate ·
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 Tilghman v. Proctor · Freeman v. Howe · Root v. Railway Co. · Krippendorf v. Hyde · Kilbourn v. Sunderland
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The serious consequences of such a restriction upon the right of a complainant to sell his interest in the subject-matter of litigation, and to have the purchaser substituted as complainant, are obvious. In every such instance, an assignment by a sole complainant, or by all of the complainants, to a stranger, would be followed, necessarily, by a dismissal of the suit at the complainant’s costs. If in a federal court, and the jurisdiction dependent on citizenship, the assignee might be compelled to go with his ease at law into a state court; and if, pending the suit in equity, the right of action at law should have become barred by the lapse of time, the complainant, whatever his original equities, might as well abandon his case as attempt a transfer, which could benefit no one but his adversary in litigation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““An original bill in the nature of a supplemental bill by a parly who has acquired ¡he plaintiff’s title by transfer from him pendente lite is not, in a proper sense, the commencement of an original suit, but is rather a more continuation of the suit. * * ::: ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““As the patent was in force at the time the bill was filed, and the complainants were entitled to a preliminary injunction at that time, the jurisdiction of the court is not defeated by the expiration of the patent by lapse of time before final decree.””
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.