Sutherland v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.2d 89 · 1934
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1989
4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Coronado Coal Co · Great Southern Fire Proof Hotel Co. v. Jones · Goldey v. Morning News · Ex Parte Shaw · Puerto Rico v. Russell & 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * no civil suit shall be brought in any district court against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant;””
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.