84 F. Supp. 220 - McCrae v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1994
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41 · 29 U.S.C. § 216
Relies on Porter v. Warner Holding Co. · Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel · Huntington v. Attrill · Testa v. Katt · Williams v. Jacksonville Terminal 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is, of course, well known that federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction; and the United States District Court has only that jurisdiction whch is expressly conferred by Act of Congress, and within the constitutional grant of power of Article 3 of the Federal Constitution. Therefore when the jurisdiction of the court is challenged it is always necessary to be able to point to some federal statute which confers the jurisdiction in the particular case. •* * *»”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action or proceeding arising under any Act of Congress regulating commerce or protecting trade and commerce against restraints and monopolies.”
2 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.