Oxley v. Sweetland’s Empirical Analysis
94 F.2d 33 · 1938
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1996
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. § 111
Relies on Pennoyer v. Neff · McClellan v. Carland · William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co. · United Shoe Machinery Corporation v. United States
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The thing that makes one an indispensable party to a suit is that some interest of his will be affected by it, not that questions of law or fact will be passed upon in which he is interested but by the decision of which he will not be bound.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact of marriage is a necessary issue in this suit of plaintiff; but the purpose of the suit is, not to establish the marriage, but to determine the right to the property claimed as against adverse claims of the defendants. As such, it is one of which the federal courts have jurisdiction, diversity of citizenship and the jurisdictional amount being present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Law v. Law
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.