Woolridge v. McKenna’s Empirical Analysis
8 F. 650 · 1881
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1996 · most notably C. W. Cornell v. F. E. Coyne (1904), Barnette v. Wells Fargo Nevada Nat Bank of San Francisco (1926)
10 federal appellate · 6 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 United States v. Kirby · Claflin v. Houseman · Meyer v. Construction Co. · Galpin v. Page · Robertson v. Cease
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There seems to be the recognition of a general principle that where a cause has been removed and falls within the act of Congress, it will not be remanded for irregularities which can be remedied and have worked no injury to the adverse party.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““But while tbe act of congress requires security that the transcript shall be filed on tbe first day of tbe term, it nowhere appears that this court is to be deprived of its jurisdiction if it be filed at a later date in tbe term.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.