Muller v. Dows’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 444 · 1876
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 11 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 275 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1998 · most notably Baker Thomas v. General Motors Corporation (1998), Ex Parte Shaw (1892)
73 federal appellate · 11 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 Lafayette Insurance v. French · Railway Company v. Whitton's Administrator
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 275 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is here imiloirtitedly a recognized doctrine that a court of equity, sitting-in a state and having juiisdietion of the person, may decree a conveyance by him of land in another state, and may enforce the decree by process against the defendant. True, it cannot send its process into that other state, nor can it deliver possession oí land in another jurisdiction, but it can command and enforce a transfer of the title. And there seems to be no reason why it cannot, in a proper case, effect the transfer by the agency of the trustees when they are complainants.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"A corporation itself can be a citizen of no slate, in the sense in which the word ‘citizen’ is used in the constitution of the United States. A suit may be brought in the federal courts by or against a corporation, but In such a case it is regarded as a suit brought by or against the stockholders of the corporation, and for the purposes of jurisdiction it is conclusively presumed that all the stockholders are citizens of the stale which by its laws created the corporation. It is therefore necessary that it be made to appear that the artificial being was brought info existence by the law of some state other than that of which the adverse party is a citizen.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The mortgagors here were within the jurisdiction of the court. So were the trustees of the mortgage. It was at the instance of the latter the master was ordered to make the sale. The court might have ordered the trustees to make it. The mortgagors who were foreclosed were enjoined against claiming property after the master's sale, and directed to make a deed to the imrchaser in further assurance. And the court can direct the trustees to make a deed to the purchaser in confirmation of the sale. AYe cannot, therefore, declare void the decree which was made.””
3 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.