Coal Company v. Blatchford’s Empirical Analysis
78 U.S. 172 · 1870
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 30 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 271 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2013 · most notably Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger (1978), City of Indianapolis v. Chase Nat Bank of City of New York (1941)
65 federal appellate · 30 district · 10 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
Relies on Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Browne v. Strode
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 271 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In other words, if there are several co-plaintiffs, the intention of the act is that each plaintiff must be competent to sue, and, if there he several defendants, each defendant must ho liable to bo sued, or the jurisdiction cannot be entertained.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Lyon · Cuebas v. Cuebas““If they are personally qualified by their citizenship to bring suit in the federal courts, the jurisdiction is not defeated by the fact that the parties whom they represent may be disqualified.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“suit between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a.citizen of another State”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Lyon · Hanrick v. Hanrick
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.