Kain v. Gibboney’s Empirical Analysis
101 U.S. 362 · 1879
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1954 · most notably Jones v. Habersham (1882), Russell v. Allen (1882)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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 Francois Fenelon v. The Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia · Trustees of the Philadelphia Baptist Ass'n v. Hart's Executors · William Wheeler v. Hugh Smith
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Baptist Association that.' for ordinary meets at Philadelphia annually,”
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.