Morgan's Executor v. Gay’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 81 · 1873
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1975 · most notably Souffront v. La Compagnie Des Sucreries De Porto Rico (1910), Robertson v. Cease (1878)
16 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Montalet v. Murray · Town of Queensbury v. Culver
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.
“In Turner v. Bank of North America, 4 Dall. 8 , it was distinctly ruled that when an action upon a promissory note is brought in a Federal court by an endorser against the maker, not only the parties to the suit, but also the citizenship of the payee and the endorser, must be averred in the record to be such as to give the court jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holmes v. Goldsmith“that amendment may be made in the pleadings, showing the citizenship of the indorser of the bills, if it be such as to give the court jurisdiction of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robertson v. Cease
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.