Doyle v. Continental Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 535 · 1876
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 22 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 250 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2005 · most notably United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n (1944), National Equipment Rental, Ltd. v. Szukhent (1964)
24 federal appellate · 22 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 29 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 Paul v. Virginia · Brown v. Maryland · Bank of Augusta v. Earle · Lafayette Insurance v. French · Henderson v. Mayor of the City of New York Commissioners of Immigration v. North German Lloyd
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 250 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the act done by the state is legal,—is notin violation of tho constitution or laws of the United States,—-it is quite out of the power of any court to inquire what was the intention of those who enacted the law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The effect of our decision in this’ respect is that the state may compel the foreign company to abstain from federal courts or to cease to do business in the state. It gives the company the option. This is justifiable, because the complainant has no constitutional right to do business in that state. That state has authority at any time to declare that it shall not transact business there. This is the whole point of the case, and, without reference to the injustice, the prejudice, or the wrong that is alleged to exist, must determine the question. No right of the complainant, under the laws or the Constitution of the United States, by its exclusion from the state, is infringed, and this is what the state now accomplishes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ Though a State may have the power, if it sees fit to subject its citizens to the inconvenience, of prohibiting all foreign corporations from transacting business within its jurisdiction, it has no power to impose unconstitutional conditions upon their doing so. Total prohibition may produce suffering, and may manifest a spirit of unfriendliness-towards sister States; but prohibition, except upon conditions derogatory to the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United States, is mischievous, and productive of hostility and disloyalty to the general government. If a State is unwise enough to legislate the one, it has no constitutional power to legislate the other. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.