Alderson v. Dole’s Empirical Analysis
74 F. 29 · 1896
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1929
3 district ·
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 Hollins v. Brierfield Coal & Iron Co. · Richmond v. Irons · Kennedy v. Gibson · Wehrman v. Conklin · Cowley v. Northern Pacific Railroad
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Independently of the statutes of Maine, there could be no jurisdiction in equity. Those statutes cannot affect the jurisdiction of the federal courts in that particular.””
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.