Strawbridge v. Curtiss’s Empirical Analysis
1806
Citation profile
280 federal appellate · 328 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,594 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger (1978), Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. (1959)
280 federal appellate · 328 district · 14 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
Cited together with Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · City of Indianapolis v. Chase Nat Bank of City of New York · Carden v. Arkoma Associates · Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain
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 1,594 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“each distinct interest should be represented by persons, all of whom are entitled to sue, or may be sued, in the federal courts.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The words of the act of Congress are, 'where an alien is a party; or the suit is between a citizen of a state where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state.' The court understands these expressions to mean, that each distinct interest should be represented by persons, all of whom are entitled to sue, or may be sued, in the federal courts.”
3 later decisions 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.