In re Kirby’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1982 · most notably Jordan v. De George (1951), State v. Zobel (1965)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Wall · Commonwealth v. Gorham
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If it is not dishonest and contrary to good morals to receive property of another, and convert it to one's own use and gain, knowing it to have been stolen, we are at a loss to know of what honesty and good morals consist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Re Garrity“Everything done contrary to justice, honesty, modesty, or good morals, is done with turpitude.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Re Garrity
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.