Grigsby v. Purcell’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 505 · 1878
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2004 · most notably United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell (1947), Teague v. Regional Commissioner of Customs (1969)
16 federal appellate · 2 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 Ableman v. Booth · Mussina v. Cavazos · Claimants of the Steamer Virginia v. West · Wood v. Lide
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The appellee'in the above entitled cause, by W. D. Davidge and William H. Trescott, its solicitors, appearing specially for the motion, now moves the court to dismiss the said cause for the want of jurisdiction, because, “First. The transcript of the record was not filed in this court, and the cause docketed at the term next after the appeal was prayed and allowed. “ Second,. No citation was issued. “W. D. Davidge, “William H. Tresoot, ' “ Solicitors for Appellee. “ The decree appealed from bears date November 12, 1883. On the same day the appeal was prayed in open court and allowed. The transcript of the record was filed, and the cause docketed in this court, January 17, 1887, more than three'years after the appeal was prayed and allowed. The term of this court next after the allowance of the appeal, and to which the appeal was returnable, ended May 4, 1885, when the court adjourned. The appeal then became functus officio and of no avail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It by no means follows, as seems to be supposed by counsel who resist this motion, that if parties appear and without objection go to a> hearing in a cause docketed after the return term, our judgment will be void for want of jurisdiction. The real objection is not that this court has no jurisdiction, but that the plaintiff in error, or the appellant, as the case may be, has failed to duly prosecute his suit; and this objection may be taken advantage of by the court upon its own motion, or by the appellee or the defendant in error at any time before hearing.””
1 later decision 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.