Robertson v. Cease’s Empirical Analysis
97 U.S. 646 · 1878
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 37 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 355 later decisions (59 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan (1884), Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain (1989)
105 federal appellate · 37 district · 12 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 Railway Company v. Ramsey · Robert Parker and Miles White v. William Overman · Morgan's Executor v. Gay · Briges v. Sperry
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 355 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the jurisdiction of the circuit court is limited in the sense that it has none except that conferred by the constitution and laws of the United States; the presumption now, as well as before the adoption of the fourteenth amendment, is that a cause is without its jurisdiction unless the contrary affirmatively appears. In cases where jurisdiction depends upon the citizenship of the parties, such citizenship, or the facts which in legal intendment constitute it, should be distinctly and positively averred In the pleadings, or they should appear affirmatively and with equal distinctness in other parts of the record.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]itizenship and residence, as often declared by this court, are not synonymous terms.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here is no allegation as to the citizenship of Cease. The averment as to him is, that he resides in the county of Mason and State of Illinois. It is, however, claimed by counsel to be apparent, or to be fairly inferred from certain documents or papers copied into the transcript, that Cease was, at the commencement of the action, a citizen of Illinois.”
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.