Insurance Company v. Francis’s Empirical Analysis
78 U.S. 210 · 1870
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1945 · most notably Ex Parte Shaw (1892), Thames Mersey Marine Insurance Company v. United States (1915)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company v. Wheeler · Hobbs v. Magruder
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A corporation can have no legal existence outside the sovereignty by which it was created. Its place of residence is there, and can be nowhere else. Unlike a natural person, it cannot change its domicile at will, and, although it may be permitted to transact business where its charter does not operate, it cannot on that account acquire a residence there.””
8 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.